The New Era Trilogy: Book 1
Disclaimer: I do not own any part of the Spyro franchise what so ever in any way. However, I do own my own OC's: Jade, Andrew, and David.
Authors Note: I'm new here and have never written anything other than book reports for school, so if you're looking for something spectacular you're at the wrong place. I'm just starting out. But if anyone has any suggestions, constructive criticism, or anything else that would help me succeed in becoming a writer please scream your thoughts out to me. I would appreciate it.
Chapter 1-Good times.
"Yo David, pass me the wrench" Andrew said with his eyes and hands glued to the engine of a 56 Chevy. Andrew is a black man about 6 feet tall, he has a short-short black hair, dark brown eyes, a small beard, and a few tattoos on both arms, for being 20 he is fairly muscular. Andrew has always loved vehicles ever since he was a child. Every day he would go missing and end up being found in the driver's seat of his father's pickup truck. David on the other hand was never very fascinated with vehicles, he just thought of them as a way to get from point A to point B. "Alright, I'm guessing it's over in this cabinet." David made his way over to the cabinet and started to rustle through random drawers with no luck at finding the wrench. "Hey Andrew, what drawer?". "It's the top one on the-'' before he could answer David yelled "Found it!". He handed the wrench to Andrew which immediately took it and started tightening a bolt. "thanks bro, we finally fixed this old timer" Andrew said happily with a little dance. David just chuckled and replied "yeah yeah, come on Fred Astaire, it's the end of our shift, time to go home". With that said they checked out and headed back to their apartments.
"Hey David" Andrew said with his eyes glued to the road. "Ever since the night you were able to turn into a dragon, have you ever been visited by the what-ever-you-call-him?" Andrew asked with a serious tone. "Who, you mean the Chronicler?" David asked with a similar tone. "Why do you care?" he said shortly after. Andrew was trying to find the right words, "because I think something's going to happen, something that will change your life completely, something bad". Andrew suddenly handed David a P10 pistol. David shot Andrew a death glare and put the pistol in his backpack, "What, you don't think my life is bad enough as it is? My whole life has become about this whole god damn secret, and if I tell anyone besides you or my mom and dad know I don't know what would happen to me!" David was yelling the last few words. Silence was laid upon the two like a heavy blanket. A few minutes passed before Andrew decided to break it. He cleared his voice in preparation to say something. "David, I know how you feel, when I was only 14 I ended up in a gang. Shortly after, I was caught up in a gang war… I killed four kids, three of them weren't even 17 years old. Ever since then I have been living with this horrible secret." A few moments passed before he continued. "The worst part is, is that I can't do anything to bring them back no matter how hard I try. Those boys are DEAD because of me and thing is, I could have let them live." With that said they were silent the rest of the drive. David saw a tear in Andrews eyes but decided it would be better to let it be.
After about twenty minutes the two arrived at Davids apartment. David simply said "thanks" and walked into the building. Andrew noticed that David left his phone in the car door pocket and ran into the building to return it to him. David noticed Andrew running towards him with a small black device, "David! You left your phone in my car!" Andrew handed over the phone and turned to walk back to his car. David felt bad at how he snapped out at his best friend that he has had for a year and a half. Right as Andrew was about to exit the building David yelled "Hey Andrew, Want to go bowling tomorrow? We don't have work!" Andrew turned around and happily replied "Yeah, I'd love to. Can I bring my girlfriend?" David chuckled "Yeah, which one!" They both laughed. Suddenly Andrew had an idea, "hey, what about a double date? You bring your girl too." Andrew though for a moment, "You mean Rachel? We're just friends. But sure, I'd love to bring her! But damn I wouldn't mind getting under the covers with her!" "Alright bro calm down. I'll pick you and Rachel up tomorrow at 2:00pm, Sound good?" David thought about it for a minute before agreeing. And with that Andrew walked out to his car while David went up to his room.
Eventually David got to room 123. He put a hand his left pocket and pulled out the room key.
"What the…" He heard a loud rustling coming from behind the door. David hesitated to put the key in the lock wondering if it was safe to enter or not. He suddenly remembered the handgun Andrew gave him in the car. David pulled out the hand gun and concealed it under his coat. He stuck the key into the lock and begun to twist. Right as he was about to open the door he heard a low growl. He whipped out his gun and took a few steps back.
David suddenly knocked open the door and fired two bullets at what appeared to be a large black reptile with red wing membranes and emerald eyes. Consequently it howled loudly in pain and dropped to the floor. Soon it got back up and started to charge up a glowing swampy green colored ball. Before David knew it, the green ball was fired at him. David dodged it easily, but before he could react to anything else the reptile pounced and tackled him. David who was taking kempo lessons knew exactly what to do. Only one problem, he didn't know how to take care of a freaky large lizard.
The reptile was getting frustrated.
"I don't want to hurt him, but if I don't he'll probably kill me." The reptile thought quietly. Suddenly she got an elbow to her snout. The force was enough to knock her off of him and before she could react, the human was on top of her with that same device that put two holes right through her right foreleg pointing right at her head.
David had enough of this lizard and was about to pull the trigger until he noticed that this large reptile was actually a dragoness. He stopped and got off the dragon and put the gun on the kitchen counter. A second later the dragoness got up and just stood there.
"Are you alright?" The dragoness asked. She noticed that David was in shock and wondered why.
David snapped out of his shock "y-you can t-talk?"
"Of course I can, I'm a dragon!" she said with a confused look.
Dumbfounded, David replied "Oh, uhhh, I guess we just don't get many other creatures that can speak the same language as us."
"by the way, my names Cynder."
"Mines David." David said still dumbfounded.
The dragoness didn't like the awkward feeling between them so she decided to make a move. To Davids surprise she took a few steps closer to him. Unfortunately for Cynder, David, just out of instinct grabbed his gun and pointed it at the dragon.
"What the hell are you doing in my apartment, tell me! Or I'll kill you right here right now!" David yelled with his gun pointed right at Cynders head replacing his dumbfounded expression with anger. He noticed that the she was limping and the two bleeding holes on her right foreleg where he shot her. She backed away some and fell where she was with a small cry of pain. David felt terrible for what he did. With a sigh, he put the gun back on the counter and moved towards the dragoness, "Let me look at your wounds." The dragoness made a low growl.
"I don't want to hurt you, let me just take a look at your wounds" David said with the a calm , kind voice. Right as he said that the dragoness stopped growling and started to whimper in pain.
"Shit, these were poisoned bullets" David said to himself. He knew he was about to cause Cynder an excruciating amount of pain. But he had to otherwise the poison would keep entering her body.
Cynder was curious about the humans behavior, it was aggressive to kind to aggressive to kind again.
"Why are you helping me, I tried to kill you earlier." She said in a confused tone.
David thought about it then replied "It wasn't your fault. You were only defending yourself. In fact, I'm the one who tried to kill you in the first place. Look, these bullets were poisoned, if I don't get these out of you they will end up killing you. What I'm about to do will cause you excruciating pain." David said in a concerned tone. With that he gave Cynder a piece of tire that he put in his bag after work.
"What's this for, and what's a bullet?" The she asked.
"it's for you to bite down on while I get the bullets out of you, and bullets are small pointed pieces of metal that get shot out of this device at over 1500 feet per second." he showed her the gun. David replied still with concern.
"Are you ready?" he asked shortly after.
Cynder was nervous about what he said earlier but finally said "ready."
David took out a pair of tweezers and touched the wound lightly. He then started to enter the wound cautiously. He looked over to Cynders head and saw her biting the hell out of the rubber piece of tire.
"Damn it!" David yelled in his head. He noticed that the bullet he was trying to get was lodged inside her bone. When he got close to the bullet he looked back at Cynder's head and noticed tears flowing down her face. In an effort to calm the dragoness down he started to hum a tune he created while at work. It didn't have any affect so he stopped.
David now had a good grip on the bullet. "Don't move a muscle" he said to Cynder who was whimpering and biting onto the piece of metal. She nodded to let him know she understood. He then yanked the bullet out which to Davids surprise was extremely easy. He then took his shirt off and wrapped it around her leg and put as much pressure as he could on the wound to stop the bleeding. David was curious to why he didn't hear a sound coming from Cynder, he looked over and wasn't surprised. She was unconscious due to the horrible pain she had to go through. "She lasted longer than I could have" he said to himself.
He repeated the process with the other bulled without a problem. This one was easier because one, he didn't have to listen to the pain Cynder was going through, That was the worst part for David. And two, the bullet wasn't lodged in a bone. After the bullet was out he wrapped another shirt around the wound and then threw the bullets in the trash.
David felt a sheet of sadness cover him. He sat by her for a while thinking about what happened over the evening. When he was about to go to bed e put a blanket over her to keep her warm throughout the night then decided to sleep on the couch just to make sure nothing would happen. Finally after a few hours of just lying awake, weariness replaced sadness and after a few moments David closed his eyes and peacefully slipped into the realm of dreams.
Yay! The first chapter of the first book I have ever wrote is done! I feel great! Anyway, I know this chapter is extremely sketchy and I would appreciate every bit of advice I could get to becoming a better writer. I'm already starting chapter two which is going to be about what Cynder is doing in the human world. So with that said, tell me what ya think! Alright, now I'm going to go celebrate by throwing a house party with random people! YAY!
From your bro,
The
Two
Tailed
Dragon