A/N: Hey I'm back! It took me longer than expected to get this chapter put together. As for update timing for this story, it will update when it's ready.
Disclaimer: I don't own the Legend of Spyro, only my OC's
The Legend of the Three: The Eternal Night
A Legend of Spyro Fan Fic
Chapter 1: Cynder's Departure
(The White Isle)
"The chosen heroes have completed the first leg of their journey," The Chronicler thought, "if it were up to me, they would have more time to rest and recuperate. But unfortunately, fate, it seems, has other plans".
The Chronicler went back to check the books again, and found a new prophecy: The Purple Dragon and the Three shall venture forth again, seeking answers to their troubled dreams. They shall venture to the White Isle, seeking knowledge of the Eternal Night. Four shall arrive: Two shall continue forwards to face the darkness, and Two shall return to guard the future.
"The time is here once again," said the Chronicler, preparing to contact Spyro and the others.
(Spyro's Dream)
Spyro's POV
I was drifting through a forest, in a region I didn't recognize. The twin moons were high in the sky, and were close to eclipsing. As I continued forwards, I came to an extremely craggy mountain peak, shaped like a dragon's head, mouth open and roaring to the sky, it had strange green fluid pouring from its flanks. Suddenly, a beam of purple light came shooting out of the mountain's 'mouth', looking quite realistic.
At this moment, I heard familiar voices.
"My Master returns," said Dark Cynder.
"We're too late!" I heard myself say.
Suddenly I found myself back in Convexity, during the battle with Dark Cynder. I saw that my friends and I had just been knocked out of our energy form, and that I'd started charging up my Convexity fury. As the Fury was released, I felt myself pull back quickly, and I saw the energies from the fury radiate out across all of Convexity. My perspective pulled back in, and I saw Cynder return to her true form.
"She IS just like us!" I heard myself saying.
The suction from the portal then increased, pulling Cynder towards it.
"Dude, we've gotta get out of here, NOW!" shouted Sparx.
"We can't leave her behind," I hear myself say, "we've got to save her!"
"WHAT? Save the beast that's been trying to kill us?" said Sparx.
"Sparx, it wasn't her fault," said Gneiss, "She was being used by the Dark Master!"
At that moment, Cynder was sucked into the portal, and I saw myself leap into the portal along with the others to pull her back. After a couple seconds of tension, we came bursting back out with Cynder in tow.
"Now we can go," I heard myself say.
I was pulled along behind our group as we flew back to the entrance portal where we could return to the normal world.
As we continued along, I heard an ominous voice calling out to me.
"S-s-spyro… S-s-spyro," It said.
Just then the scene faded away…
The Dragon Temple
Spyro's POV
"S-s-spyro," Sparx whispered.
I leapt to my feet, quickly looking around and saw I was in the relative safety of the Temple on the balcony outside the training room. I glanced up at the sky, and saw that the moons appeared to be close to each other in the sky, in the same positions as in my dream.
Calm down, Spyro, it just a dream… I thought, but it seemed so real…
It was the same dream I'd been having for the past couple nights, a flashback to the battle in Convexity. And that mountain, it seemed important… I looked around and saw that Gneiss, Tempest and Jolt were also awake, and that Sparx was the one who'd woken us up.
"Hey Spyro, some night huh? Beautiful," said Sparx.
"What is you want Sparx?" I asked, wondering what was so important that it couldn't wait until the morning.
"Huh, why do I have to want something?" Replied Sparx, "I'm just ready to begin the best day ever now that the evil-psycho-she-dragon is gone".
THAT got my attention, and from the looks of it, the others attention as well.
"What? Cynder?" asked Jolt, "what do you mean Sparx?"
"Whoa, calm down big fellas. My gosh, you're awfully tense. Hmm, haven't been sleeping much? You should listen to Volteer tell one of his stories. That'll put you to sleep".
"Sparx. What happened?" said Tempest, staring hard at him.
"Okay, are you ready?" said Sparx, as he began to relate his tale, "I get up to get some fresh air… since I don't sleep much myself these days with, uh, the female-of-fright hanging about. Lo and behold, there she was, sneaking out into the garden. She gives me the creeps, dude. Hear my teeth?"
He then chattered his teeth to make a point of just how fearful he was.
"Come on," I said, "we have to find her. It's dangerous for her to be outside the Temple at night".
The four of us started towards the door to the training room, but Sparx moved to block our path.
"It's dangerous for any of us to be outside the Temple at night," replied Sparx, "Besides, Ignitus said you have to wait until your powers return… cause your weak".
"There's no time to argue, Sparx," said Gneiss, "come on!"
"Ah… you'd be helpless without me," said Sparx, "I'd better come with you".
Gneiss' POV
We headed inside the Temple, entering the training room. Since it wasn't currently in use, the statue was raised, but for some reason, it was facing the opposite direction from usual. I wasn't sure why, however. Maybe someone was doing some late night training, and didn't reset the room properly.
Anyway, we continued into the next chamber, where the pool of visions was located. We then went out through the next door, to the chamber where the Guardians were sleeping.
"Hmmmmmph," mumbled Terrador.
Spyro quickly looked around the room, examining the route we'd have to take.
"Quiet," whispered Spyro, "we mustn't wake them".
"What?" shouted Sparx, "I can't hear you over all this snoring!"
We all quickly cringed slightly, expecting the Guardians would wake up, but luckily, they didn't.
We quickly tiptoed across the room listening to the Guardians muttering in their sleep.
"Yes of course," said Cyril.
"In the truth of the matter," mumbled Volteer.
Finally, we passed Ignitus, who was sleeping quietly, and exited through the far door.
In the next area, we climbed up a series of ledges, fighting a couple of Toadweeds along the way. Soon enough, we caught up to Cynder.
"Cynder, what are you doing out here?" asked Spyro, "It's dangerous!"
Cynder turned to look at us, with a sad expression on her face.
"You shouldn't have followed me, any of you," said Cynder.
"That's good enough for me," said Sparx, "let's go! Seeya!"
"Please, don't make this any harder for me than it already is," said Cynder.
"We're just trying to understand," said Tempest.
"I'm leaving guys. I don't belong here. After all I've done," replied Cynder, "all I've put you through… I can't stay".
"Cynder," I said, "You quite literally weren't in control of your actions, and can not be held responsible for them. No one here blames you for what happened".
"Huh, I do," said Sparx, "speak for yourself".
"SPARX!" the four of us shouted.
"No, Sparx is right," continued Cynder sadly, "and every day that goes by I'm reminded of it. The four of you… your place is here, your destiny is here. But mine is somewhere out there for me to find".
"Cynder, we don't want you to go," said Spyro.
"Goodbye… all of you," said Cynder.
Cynder then ran off leaving the temple for parts unknown.
"Now, can finally get some sleep around here?" said Sparx, "I've been only sort of half-sleeping with one eye open for weeks now, alternating eyes of course. It lessens the strain but I tell ya, it's taken its toll. Hey was this twitch always here?"
I was about to yell at Sparx for being so insensitive, but suddenly I felt very unsteady on my feet, and was struggling to stay conscious. I noticed that the others were in the same condition.
"Hey, you okay guys?" asked Sparx.
At that point all four of us fell to the ground, almost instantly out cold.
"Hey I wanna sleep too," said Sparx, "But I didn't mean NOW! Let's at least get inside… it's dark out here man, and I don't like it".
I felt mself drifting, to were i didn't know.
A/N: sorry tis took so long to put together. I kept getting dictracted by other things, including working on other story ideas, and also taking a short vacation to Washington to ride the Chehalis-Centralia Railroad.
Anyway, read and review, and see you next chapter!