Ch. 1: Wasteland
"How did it come to this, brother?" Windstorm asked her older sibling. She was an Air dragon, with snow-white scales, four horns and a sky-blue underbelly, spines and wing membrane. Her brother, Rocky, was silent. He was an Earth dragon, which was most apparent in his conspicuous lack of wings, thick, tree-bark-brown scales, the twin scythe-like blades extending in the shape of a crescent moon from his tail, his large, moss-green frill, and the dagger-like spurs protruding from his elbows and knees. Another defining feature of her brother was his small lips and rather large, flat teeth designed for crushing stuff. This resulted in his teeth always showing, no matter what.
Some might think it odd that there could be dragon siblings of opposite elements. Their father had been a dragon of all elements. Their mother only one. Thus their children could only have power over one element, but it could be any element, selected at random. It had been a strange fluke that they should be opposite elements, but Rocky and Windstorm had learnt to accept it.
The two dragons were endlessly trudging through a bleak landscape. It was a long, endless plain of smooth, featureless yet seamless grey rock. There had been others with them, six of them, but they had all disappeared at some point or another. The green one, Windstorm thought her name was May or something like that, had been the first to disappear. She had gone almost as soon as the eight of them had appeared, and the other five had all gone the same way sooner or later afterwards. Windstorm and Rocky were the last ones left.
Neither them, nor the other six dragons who had been with them before, had had any idea what the place was. Windstorm allowed a mask of anger to distort her pearl-white features. It was all because of those four stupid dragons! The Portal Master dragon, the traitor Cynder, that golden sun dragon that was supposed to be dead for eleven thousand years, but most of all that stupid, suicidal, unbelievably lucky purple dragon Spyro that had killed her and Rocky's father! Sure, they had had help from the army of Skylanders that had attacked their castle right in the middle of the incantation, but it was those four who had actually spoiled the whole thing. Everyone else had just been hired help.
At least the incantation succeeded, Windstorm thought grimly. And the odds were that those four dragons were somewhere in this endless wasteland too. The Air dragon sought solace in that fact.
But her brother was following a different train of thought. How did we even end up in this mess?, Rocky had to ask himself. And he cast his mind back to the beginning.
And with that, I have another spin-off from 'The Dragon Chronicles'. But who the heck are Rocky and Windstorm? That will be revealed in the next chapter of Dragon Chronicles. In other words, when I feel like it. This isn't particularly related to the Skylanders we know and love, but these two and what happens to them is going to be very, very important in Dragon Chronicles. Please review! Peace!