This is my first fanfic so hopefully it's a good one. Enjoy.
Also, I don't own anything to do with Spyro.
This will contain some coarse language but it won't be that bad...probably.

Italics = thought
** = action

The legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Huragon

Chapter 1

Prologue

The year was 2012. Queen Elizabeth II had her Diamond jubilee, the Eurozone was in a financial crisis and the Olympics were in London. Those were just a few of the events that happened in this year. Most of the population of earth would have taken an interest in at least one of these historical moments, but for one unlucky stressful teenager, he couldn't care about any of it. Why should he? He has his own problems.

Alec was a less than happy human being. In fact he was borderline miserable. Alec knew that the year of 2012 was going to be a 'judgement' year for him where the rest of his life would be decided. Alec got into his chosen college in 2010 after a successful five years at secondary school, achieving average to above-average grades, but the leap from secondary school to college was a gap Alec misjudged, badly. While he enjoyed his first year there, he came out failing two subjects and just passing the other two. If he wanted to continue to university he needed to raise and maintain the grades he didn't fail. However due to his own negligence and care-free attitude he was unable to maintain the grades and just missed out on going to university.

After failing college, his parents decided that they had had enough of him and his attitude. They told him that if he was unable finish college with decent grades, then he would have to search for a job working in the local supermarket or he would be kicked out the house.

Upon hearing this news, he thought to himself, "it couldn't get any worse... could it?"How wrong he was.

A few days later, after his parents fury had withered away, he was carrying some spare parts in a flimsy box for his future car that his dad was restoring. The spare parts in question contained gears and cogs from a gearbox out of a FIAT Panda 4x4 Sisley, when the box collapsed in on itself, pouring the contents of sharp, heavy objects onto Alec's left foot, who at the time wasn't wearing shoes.

Alec stood bewildered for a moment until the searing pain came flooding into his brain. He let out a scream so loud his neighbours from across the street could hear.

He thought to himself while in agony, "Alright, OW! so it got worse. But that's gotta be it...right? ACK!"Wrong.

After his foot healed, which took about two and a half weeks and left a slight scar, he was playing one of his beloved games, Borderlands, when all of a sudden "BANG!" A small explosion went off inside his Xbox 360 and scared Alec witless. Once he'd calmed down, he tried turning it on again, but to no avail.

"Noooo! It can't be! I was sooo close to killing Crawmerax! AAARRGH! WHY ME? *breathes in and out slowly* Okay, okay. So I fail college, car parts have shredded my feet and my Xbox just died WITH Borderlands stuck inside... Could I get anymore bad luck?" The answer to that was yes.

After bidding farewell to his console, he turned to his laptop for entertainment. He switched it on and proceeded to open Google Chrome. It responded with a message saying 'UNABLE TO CONNECT TO INTERNET'.

At that moment, Alec's patience with life had worn out. A silent rage was building inside him. A vein popped out from his forehead, his face started to turn red, his eyeballs looked as if they were about to pop out of their sockets and he started breathing rapidly. His pent-up anger was suddenly released when he punched a hole through his laptop screen. It was only after what he had done when he realised the damage to his laptop, and his hand. Alec slowly but painfully retracted his bloodied hand from the screen, once it was free he went to the bathroom and started to wash the blood away. Alec's anger subsided while he was treating his hand but his anger was replaced with tears of unhappiness.

"Why? *Sniff* Why do I have to be such a brain-dead buffoon? I can't get good grades, I can't fix anything like my dad, I can't cook anything like my mum can and I can't create stuff like sis can...*sniff* Why am I even here. I'm no good to anyone..."

He remained in his room for two hours, wallowing in his depression without any interruption from anyone. Once he had gotten a hold of himself, he looked at the clock which read 11:32 pm. He then made the clever decision and went to bed.

"At least when I'm asleep I can forget all my troubles and live in my own world." he murmured, sliding under his covers not bothering to change out of his clothes.

The next morning, he woke up feel better and slightly chilly. His clothes managed to escape from his body and were sprawled on his bed. Alec scratched his head, trying to figure out when he took his clothes off during the night. He shrugged his shoulder and decided not to ponder on it anymore.

Today was Saturday, meaning he would be going out and meeting with one of his best friends and doing some sort of social activity. As soon as he remembered, Alec jumped into the shower. During the shower, Alec remembered the dream he had while he was sleeping. It was about Spyro the Dragon and how Alec was accepted by Spyro and everyone else in that realm. On the one hand, he felt a bit giddy just thinking about it, on the other hand, he was wondering why he dreamt about Spyro. The last time he played a Spyro game was a couple of months back where he was trying to finish the last level and defeat Gaul in The Eternal Night.

After the relaxing shower, he got dressed and thought about what he and his friend were going to do today. However, what he didn't know was that a series of events were about to happen that would decide that for him.

The time was 12:05 pm and Alec had just got off the train at the station which was closest to his mate's house. For some reason the only thing Alec could think about during the train journey was Spyro. This made him slightly confused, nevertheless he discarded the confusion and headed for the meeting point.

As Alec turned the last corner he could see his friend waiting in his usual way just outside his house.

His friend was first to speak, "It's about time you got here Alec." To which Alec replied, "Well it's nice to see you to Mick."

Mick was only a month older than Alec but due his bigger-than-average build, you would've thought he was two or three years older.

"So what are we gonna do today?" Mick asked. "I feel like having a game of bowling, you up for it?" Alec suggested. "Sounds good. Let's go." Mick approved.

Ten minutes later they arrived at the bowling alley. The good thing about where Mick lives is that it's just outside a popular shopping town with its own bowling complex. Basically every young boys and girls dream place to go on a Saturday.

It was surprisingly empty for a Saturday but that was because it was only 12.20 pm. Even so, it shouldn't have been THIS empty.
(Imagine that there are only 6 or 7 people)

They both paid for two games; one as a warm up and the second as a proper game. Both Alec and Mick scored over one hundred and twenty points on the warm game putting both of them in high spirits for the proper game. However, when Alec took his first go he only got four pins while Mick got a strike. Alec's face was easier to read than a children's book, "okay, I see how this is going down..."

Both games took a total of one hour and fifteen minutes and Alec was destroyed in the second game one hundred and thirty-two to eighty-six.

"Man, you were on fire today Mick." Alec said begrudgingly. "What? You were surprised?" Mick said in a playful yet annoying way making Alec growl under his breath.

As they were going back to Mick's, Alec noticed an old-looking shop he had never seen before. Alec went to Mick's on a regular basis and came into town nearly every time and he knew this shop was never there.

"Hey Mick... How long has this shop been here?" Alec queried. "Dunno. I never paid much attention to shops like that."

Alec thought about something for a minute and eventually he said, "Hey Mick I'm gonna look inside." To which Mick replied, "Whatever, I'm going home. I'll cya around." "Alright man. See you later."

Alec stepped inside cautiously and his first impressions were what he expected. The place was dark, dusty and filled with ancient looking items. After a brief look around he thought "why would I ever want to come into a shop like this? This place is a cross between a haunted house and an antique dealers. Bah! I've had enough."

Alec was about to leave when something caught his eye. He turned to it, examined it carefully then proceeded to pick it up slowly. It was an old-fashioned blood-red book with an orange trim, the ones that were used to write in with a quill and ink. The edges were crumpled and torn and the spine of the book was thick and rigid. On the front cover of this book was a dragon and for some reason, it looked... Familiar, but he knew he had never laid eyes on this book. He tried to open it, but it wouldn't open. He looked at the price of it but there was no price tag. He took it to the counter to ask the shopkeeper how much it cost. The shopkeeper gazed at the book in wonder. She told Alec that she had never seen it in her shop before and as such he could have it for free. Alec thanked the shopkeeper and left the shop with the book in hand.

Sometime later when Alec got home, he saw a note from his parents which read "GONE TO A FRIENDS PARTY. DINNER IS IN THE MICROWAVE." Alec just snorted at the note, chucked his book on the couch and headed straight for the microwave. Dinner consisted of chicken and gravy pie with potatoes and peas. Alec expected an unimpressive dinner because short notice meals were something his mother had a natural gift for.

While Alec was chewing at his pastry he caught a glimpse of the book he purchase poking out of the bag. he got it out and tried opening it again, but it was shut tight. He looked for some sort of lock or string that bound the book together, but there wasn't any. Alec just shrugged and thought the pages were all stuck together.

Alec slowly and reluctantly finished his pie and took his plate out to the kitchen and stuck it in the dishwasher, however while he was in there the book started to shake and then it burst open and opened to the center pages. When Alec came back inside he saw that the book was opened and staggered back in shock. What happened next would've send a shiver of fear so large in magnitude it could of dislodged a few of his vertebrae.

A large aqua-green hole emerged from the book and started to spin like a vortex. Alec could feel a strong gravitational pull from this...thing yet nothing else seemed to be affected. the pull was getting stronger and soon Alec was being pulled towards it. He was in such a fearful awe that he almost forgot to try and hold onto something. He came to his sense and grabbed the closest solid object he thought of. The living room doorknob...THE LIVING ROOM DOORKNOB?! Alec instantly regretted the choice because it was hard to grasp and his hands were sweaty making it even more difficult to secure a grip.

Alec put up a valiant attempt against the swirling vortex thing but his arms were getting tired and he was about to lose his grip. eventually he thought to himself, "Ha...isn't life funny. One minute your eating a poorly prepared dinner and the next your being sucked into a whirlpool that originated from a book. Shit... I'm going to die soon..."

After that thought, he let go.

When the vortex consumed him all he saw was an incredibly bright white light but in a corner of his mind he thought he heard a familiar voice which said "your new life begins soon". He didn't have time to register this because the bright light turned into darkness. Alec's last thoughts were "oh Jesus, I'm actually dead".But Alec was far from dead. He was just unconscious, and when he wakes, he'll find out that life either got more complicated or interesting.

Well there's my opener. hope it was good. if you read this please review so I can make it better.
Also if you're wondering, I did base the character around myself, some of that stuff does happen, others bits don't.

Quick note - This chapter has been updated.