This story takes place after the games The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon and Sonic Unleashed so if you don't know anything of those games then things will be very confusing.
All Sonic the Hedgehog characters (c) SEGA,
all Spyro the Dragon characters (c) Sierra/Activision.
Waves of Darkness: Chapter 1. - A New Age
In the depths of a volcano, three dragons were battling on a piece of debris that was once part of a great temple went plummeting down into the planet's core. A large dragon fell down onto the stone debris and tried to catch his breath. One of the other dragons, an indigo colour stood in a fighting position and charged up a powerful force of convexity energy and fired it at the large, malevolent dragon that had taken the blow. Another small dragon, a light shade of purple ran up and dashed into the larger dragon with a charge of convexity energy.
The larger dragon was pushed back by the force and was sent down into the planet's core while the two smaller dragons looked at each other smiling and lost in a trance. That moment ended when the large dragon came up with a surprise attack and grabbed the two dragons with his mighty paws and pinned them against the crust of the planet which resulted into crushing the two dragons.
The smaller dragons then started to fight back by pushing against the hard surface and pushed back with force that the larger dragon was forced to let them go. While the large dragon wasn't on guard, the smaller dragons combined forces together to create a spiralling force of convexity energy and dived into the large dragon's chest which sent them plummeting down into the planet's core.
Inside the planet's core, the three dragons each a shade of purple colour flew down to the purple crystal that serves as the planet's core. The largest dragon was falling down with the smaller ones following as the larger purple dragon with a malevolent look recovered and hovered in the air glaring at the other two.
"You cannot defeat me! I AM ETERNAL!" the large dragon yelled before unleashing a convexity breath straight forward to the other dragons.
The other two responded by unleashing their own convexity breaths which combined together to form one against the other dragon's beam of destruction. The larger dragon's convexity beam was starting to overpower the younger dragon's beams, "Just… hang… on!" the dragon with a lighter shade of purple said while the indigo coloured one didn't respond and continued to fight with her might.
Then suddenly, the two dragon's beam combined together grew stronger and started overpowering the older dragon's convexity beam. The younger dragon's beam became too powerful for the larger dragon that so much energy was too much as the dragon was pushed back by the force of the younger dragon's combined energy.
The larger dragon slid across the crystal and quickly got up walking towards the other dragons giving them an insidious glare. All of a sudden behind the dragon's back appeared ghostly shapes that took forms as dragons rose to the air and looked at each other while the malevolent dragon stared at the ghostly forms, "What is this!" the dragon yelled before the ghostly dragons dived in to the larger dragon and started pulling him into the planet's core. "Nooooo…" the dragon screamed as his paw was sunk into the large crystal.
The younger dragons hovered in the air as two snake necklaces around their necks glowed brightly before disappearing proving the connection to be broken. Then the purple crystal started to glow brightly emitting beams of powerful light that started destroying the planet's crust surrounding the area as pieces of debris started floating away. With the destruction going around, the other two dragons started hovering to land on the crystal as the indigo coloured dragon walked up to the purple one.
"Spyro, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry," the indigo dragoness said with her head hung down.
"Don't be. It's over now," Spyro said to comfort the indigo dragoness.
The indigo dragoness looked up at Spyro and looked around the area, "So this is it…" she whispered as the planet's crust started crumbling into smaller pieces of debris and started floating away.
The indigo dragoness looked at Spyro who closed his eyes in thought and looked around the area as she saw a ghostly figure shaped as a dragon stand behind Spyro, "Spyro, when a dragon dies, he does not truly leave this world." The dragon's spirit started rising above the two dragons whilst still speaking to Spyro in his mind, "His spirit lives on, binding itself with nature, offering hope for the future…"
Spyro opened his eyes and made up his mind, "I know what I need to do. Just get out of here Cynder," Spyro said to the indigo dragoness as he was about to walk away.
"Spyro, no… you don't have to do anything. Let's just go," Cynder said giving Spyro a sympathetic look.
Spyro looked right back at Cynder, "Where Cynder? There'll be nothing left! The world is breaking apart." Spyro looked around the area and back at Cynder, "But I think I can stop it. I think I'm meant to."
Cynder was silent for a moment before she gave Spyro a small smile, "Then I'm with you…" Spyro looked at her for a moment and rose to the air, a bright light emitting from him, "I love you…" Cynder whispered before Spyro's light started building and rising up to the debris of the broken planet giving off a bright light.
As the bright light faded, a sphere of purple and indigo engulfed the planet slowly turning completely indigo as the planet's pieces started shifting to its original place. Slowly the planet's puzzle was being completed.
"ROAR!" elsewhere in another world, a ferocious roar echoed through the area where an ocean of molten rock flowed as a landmass of the planet's crust floated above the three figures underneath. A humongous creature with six arms, a skinny, scaly body, and six eyes with one huge eye ball in the middle as fire burned in the creature's eyes the shape of a cat's pupil and purple tentacles swayed around the creature. Another gigantic figure there was a giant made of seven temples of brick and stone put together with a green light at the chest and two matching green glowing eyes. The last figure there was covered in golden flames surrounding like a powerful aura as the figure was a humanoid animal, more like a hedgehog with its quills standing up and the crimson red eyes that flashed through the golden flames.
The dark creature stood in the molten rock, getting weaker and losing its power as it was waiting for the other two to make their attack. The golden figure was floating next to the colossal figure that looked down at the flaming aura and nodded to which the figure in the golden flames grinned in response.
"Ready Chip?" the golden figure spoke.
"READY SONIC!" Chip replied to Super Sonic.
"THEN LET'S DO IT!"
The Gaia Colossus took the lead and boosted towards the monstrous figure known as Perfect Dark Gaia. Perfect Dark Gaia saw the Gaia Colossus coming and started charging an energy beam to push back the Gaia Colossus into oblivion. The Gaia Colossus responded by boosting faster and reached Perfect Dark Gaia before the creature could unleash it's energy beam as Gaia Colossus' hand started glowing a green aura charging up with energy and punched Perfect Dark Gaia's chin. Outraged, Perfect Dark Gaia grabbed the Gaia Colossus with its six long hands and started crushing the giant's body as Chip's voice can be heard wincing.
"CHIP! HANG ON!" Super Sonic shouted as a mass of golden aura increased around him and started boosting towards Perfect Dark Gaia's hands at high speeds. Once Gaia Colossus was free, Perfect Dark Gaia pushed the giant far away and unleashed an immense energy blast as the Gaia Colossus guarded immediately and allowed the energy blast to be projected onto it. Once the beam ran out, Gaia Colossus rushed forward with its fist charging up with energy and punched Perfect Dark Gaia's chin. The force of the punch was so great that Perfect Dark Gaia was pushed away from the Gaia Colossus, wincing in pain.
"ALRIGHT! MY TURN!" Super Sonic shouted as the golden flames around him grew larger than before and started boosting towards Perfect Dark Gaia who was now too weak to move. Perfect Dark Gaia tried pushing back Super Sonic by stretching it's arms out but the golden hedgehog dodged the gigantic hands and went straight through Perfect Dark Gaia's middle eye and through its head making the creature fall back on impact.
Super Sonic flew a distance away from the monstrous creature as he watched Perfect Dark Gaia sink into the molten rock, back into the planet's core. Super Sonic looked down at Gaia Colossus and gave the giant a weak smile while trying to put up a thumbs up but the Chaos energy had run out as Super Sonic lost his golden glow and reverted back to a sapphire blue. Sonic closed his eyes and fell plummeting into the molten rock but Gaia Colossus reached its hand out and caught Sonic by using its magical aura so Sonic would land softly into Gaia Colossus' hand. Gaia Colossus looked down onto its hand to see Sonic laid limb, barely conscious.
After Perfect Dark Gaia was defeated, the dark cloud that surrounded the planet disappeared as people danced around happily celebrating their world would be safe. A tall human that was a professor stood in the middle of a desert village while a pink female hedgehog stood beside him looked out into the distance, knowing that their hero saved them again. While on another part of the world, a cranky doctor was chasing a robot out into the distance, angered by the fact everything didn't go his way and the fact that the robot was insulting him.
Meanwhile the last piece of the planet's jigsaw puzzle was slowly returning to its place as the Gaia Colossus looked up at the debris coming down and at Sonic who looked unconscious. Then a ghostly figure of a small red and white figure appeared looking down at the hedgehog and gave him a sympathetic look. "Sonic…" Chip whispered but no response came from the hedgehog. "Sonic, you must live," Chip whispered before waving to his friend and flying back up to the Gaia Colossus.
"Chip?!" Sonic whispered with his eyes still closed. Chip stopped in mid-air and looked back down at Sonic smiling before floating back into the Gaia Colossus' body. Now in the Gaia Colossus, the giant closed its hand in to hold Sonic and prepared to throw the hedgehog in the air as Sonic floated away in a green sphere that the Gaia Colossus created to protect the hedgehog. When Sonic was out, the last piece of the planet came down onto the Gaia Colossus as it looked into the distance, watching its friend float away to safety before the debris closed in.
Elsewhere, in the Dragon Realms, somewhere out in the ocean, an isolated island stands where the water glows an aqua colour, with plain white sand, sparkling ice glitters around the place and rocks that float about the area. This island is called the White Isle where there is hardly any civilisation except for Stone Trolls and Crystal Ball Spiders that roam around the area. Inside the White Isle lies a great temple made of white stone that looked medieval like. This temple lies in the middle of the Celestial Caves where magical creatures swarm the place protecting the area.
Inside the temple a turquoise coloured dragon, old and wise stood in front of a floating book that had a picture of a moon and an orange shaped dragon glittered an image in the stars that stood out in the black sky. The room around the turquoise dragon was dark with a light shining through an opening and in the middle of the room stood a giant hourglass that was filled with glowing blue liquid that flowed inside the glass.
The dragon looked at the page of the book in thought before turning his head to his side, "Be welcome friend. I have long been expecting you…" The turquoise dragon looked back at the book to see a picture of the planet's debris floating in space while an aura surrounded the planet, "A new age is beginning…" Then the book turned the page to see a picture of a city being rebuilt with moles running around working on construction, "With each new age, a worthy dragon is chosen to chronicle the many triumphs and failures of that age." The dragon said as the book changed the page again to reveal a picture of three dragons, they were green, yellow and blue coloured dragons with a yellow dragonfly hovering beside them, "This has been my duty for many millennia."
The turquoise coloured dragon then turned his head away from the book and back to his side, "And now, Ignitus, I pass this honour to you."
A fiery orange scaled dragon then came walking from the shadows and up to the turquoise coloured dragon known as the Chronicler, "And… what of Spyro? Is he…"
"Hmm, that is the question, isn't it?" the Chronicler said as the book in front of the two dragons closed and floated away while another book came floating in front of them and opened, "You see, each time a dragon dies, a new page is written in this book," the Chronicler looked down at the book and back at Ignitus, "I've done my best, but I can't seem to find any trace of Spyro."
Then the Chronicler stood as a bright light emitted from the turquoise dragon filling the room with light. As the light faded, Ignitus' scales turned from fiery orange to sparkling turquoise as the various items that the Chronicler wore was now placed onto Ignitus. Undergoing the new transformation, Ignitus had gained the powers of the Chronicler and was now the Chronicler of the new age.
Proof that Ignitus was in control, the book that was floating in the air floated towards Ignitus so that he could look at the book, "Well, young dragon… where might you be?" Ignitus said before looking down at the book that recorded each dragon's death and saw the previous Chronicler's image and name on the newest page. Ignitus, now the new Chronicler than looked at the page previously and saw the Dark Master, Malefor the first purple dragon had been put into the records of dragon deaths proving that the Dark Master was gone and because he was sealed within the planet's core, Malefor's spirit wouldn't roam around the Dragon Realms.
With the Dark Master gone, the entire Dragon Realms could live on with peace and live how things were supposed to be. Thanks to Spyro and Cynder, the planet had been restored to the way it should be and how it should always be. With no evil, there always comes good and now, it was that time.
Now with the role as the Chronicler for the new age, Ignitus must take the duties in recording knowledge into the Books of Time that hold the past, present and glimpses of the future. The future, something that has been on Ignitus' mind. Will it remain peaceful and quiet like the way it is? Or will a new darkness rise? But how is that possible when there is no more evil existing in the Dragon Realms? The Books of Time, they hold glimpses of the future right?
With a thought in his mind, Ignitus used his new powers as the Chronicler and used his new power of telekinesis to put the book in front of him away that records the death of dragons and brought out a book that records the time in civilisation. Ignitus used his telekinesis to open the book and it opened a page when he and the other guardians were at war but the most frightening image on the page was Cynder. Back then when she was the Dark Master's servant, Cynder was a monstrous black dragon that filled the skies with terror. That continued until Spyro came along and defeated Cynder returning her back to normal, a young female dragon that was the same age as Spyro. The page turned to reveal the Celestial Moons coming forward together, coming close to the Night of Eternal Darkness. Another picture was shown to see Spyro set forth to find the Mountain of Malefor or the Well of Souls where unruly souls of the world would go to rest and defeated Gaul, the Ape King before being put to slumber by the elemental crystal that Spyro had created to protect Cynder, Sparx and himself from the fall of the Mountain of Malefor. Ignitus turned the page again to reveal Spyro and Cynder with snake like necklaces that bonded them together as they and all the inhabitants of the land set forth to stop the Destroyer. However, their plan failed because Malefor took control of the beast as the two dragons go to defeat Malefor, the Dark Master. It ended when Spyro and Cynder used their powers to bring the planet back together as peace was restored to the Dragon Realms.
Ignitus smiled remembering what happened during that adventure; it was such a great memory to have. Using his telekinesis, Ignitus turned the page hoping for a glimpse of the future to be hopeful but when he turned the page, his smile had faded into a grim look. A worried look casted upon his face as he closed his eyes in thought remembering a memory three years ago.
"See anything Ignitus?" young Spyro asked the elderly guardian who was staring down at a whirlpool, trying to focus a vision.
"No… I can't see where Cynder has gone… just darkness," Ignitus said with a grim tone in his voice.
"Wait. Cynder… darkness.. aren't they the same thing?" a young dragonfly asked who was known as Sparx, Spyro's best friend, just as close as brothers.
Ignitus ignored Sparx's comment and looked down at the whirlpool where an image was showing up, "What's this? Something is coming to focus." An image came up that was an image of Spyro standing at the base of a great and old tree, "This is peculiar. I see you… at the base of a great tree…" Ignitus looked down at the image with a grim face, "Amidst a lake of mist and doom."
Spyro's eyes lit up, "A tree! I've seen that tree! In my dreams…" Then he started to quiet down after getting eerie looks from the other guardians, "Only they usually feel more like nightmares…"
Ignitus gave Spyro a concerning glare, "Young dragon… you've been keeping secrets. What is it you see… in these dreams of yours?"
"I'm sorry Ignitus… I thought they would go away… but they only get worse."
"Relax, Spyro. Think."
Spyro nodded and closed his eyes, trying to remember his dreams, "I keep seeing… a mountain draped in shadow… a face of stone beneath two moons… and darkness."
The green guardian known as Terrador widened his eyes, "The Mountain of Malefor."
Then at that moment, a strike of lightning and thunder echoed outside as Sparx cringed, "Whoa… am I the only one who thought that was weird?"
"There was another… but it was more like I was seeing into the past and the future all at once…" Spyro continued while looking at everyone, "And there was a voice… calling himself the Chronicler. That's when I saw the tree."
Ignitus opened his eyes after remembering what happened that night three years ago when the temple was attacked and Cynder ran away, it was a dreadful night. Spyro mentioned that the Chronicler would speak to him in his dreams and that's when Ignitus got an idea as the now turquoise dragon looked at the book in front of him.
"If Spyro talked to the Chronicler before through his dreams then I could possibly do the same because I need to warn Spyro about this. It seems that something is coming and I don't know what it is. Whatever it is, I better get Spyro prepared and look out for anything new as soon as it gets recorded," Ignitus thought in his mind as he set down the book on a shelf somewhere, still open and looked for a book that could help him contact Spyro through his dreams.
On the very page of the book left open was an image of a shadow. It was a shadow of a standing figure on two long legs with a small oval body and two arms as the shadow's head was round shaped with spikes hanging down from the head and two pointy ears stood at the top. This creature was not from this world.