Welcome to Part 2 of the series premiere of the latest spinoff series based on Spyro: Dragon of Destiny...
So what do you think of the new series so far...?
I hope you guys are liking what you are reading because I am back with even more. This time more details on Crona's past and her journey will come to light. So get ready for some interesting surprises.
But first before we begin let's not forget...
DISCLAIMER: I don't own the Spryo characters or their world. They are property of Universal Games/Sierra Games. I only own the new characters and ideas that are being created for this series. Other fan characters are contributed thanks to their respective owners and are being used with their permission. Thanks guys! Anyway... Blah blah blah... etc...
AUTHOR'S NOTE: The beginning of this new series begins at an unknown point in the future and then jumps back in time to the plot point where the Cynder Rising mini-series ends and a little before The Dark Master Returns movie begins... So get ready for a real surprise because this very special 4 part series premiere episode story will feature a real interesting plot twist....
The screen flashes to show an image of Crona's point of view as Carla/Cynder's fury wave rushes towards her and the others...
Then all goes dark...
'There comes a time in all our lives when destiny calls...'
The screen flashes again to show Crona slowly raising her left paw and as she does the camera spins around to show her face as she closes her eyes...
'When that time comes you must ask yourself... Will I do what I know needs to be done even if it maybe dangerous and threaten my life. Or will I just surrender to my fears and let death take me.' Crona's paw trembled slightly as she fought her own growing fear. A few seconds passed as she fought and overcame her fear as she gritted her teeth and narrowed her eyes in a look of concentration. 'Destiny is like that... a choice. And ultimately in the end it is the path you chose that will shape you into the individual you will become...
I didn't know this at the time but overtime I came to see it as one of the ultimate truths in all of our lives. But enough about destinies, fates and choices. This is a story about my life and the path I decided.... no... 'chose' to take. So you think you know my story...' Crona said with her thoughts as she converted her telekinetic power into a energy barrier that barely held back Carla's advancing fury wave. She knew she could hold it back for long so she grasped for energy around her. Any kind of energy that she hoped would be enough to give her the strength to hold the wave off long enough for all of them to escape. Her eyes went wide as she felt Spyro's celestial energy flowing around her and she reached out grasped it. She gasped as she tried to control it but it quickly overwhelm her forcing her to have to absorb a huge amount of it... 'Well... maybe you do know some of my story but the truth is that none of you really know everything. So allow me to tell you more about my past here in a little helpful flashback...'
The screen faded to black...
Crona: "This is my chronicle..."
An image of Crona walking across a desert in her robes as a breeze picks up and blows one of her writing quills away. She glances up after it, her robes dancing around her body thanks to the desert winds as the camera pans away from her to follow her quill spinning thru the air as the winds carries it away...
The screen fades to black as the new song 'My Secret Destiny' begins to play...
'My Secret Destiny...
Calls out to me...
Showing me the way I should go...
For I never before knew where I was going...
I never knew...
My Secret Destiny... (echoes in a whispering tone)
Calling out to me...
Crona... (echoes)
An image of Crona walking across the top part of the screen as below her various places like Warfang and the Dragon temple passby as we see her continue her journey to across the Endless desert to find her destiny...
The time has come...
To find my destiny...
The future has begun...
And it is time...
Time to find...
My Secret Destiny...
An image of her meeting a gryphoness named Natalie. Natalie is in need of help which Crona gives her and once she does this the two become best friends. The image shows both her and Natalie now walking across the desert. Stopping for the night at an oasis...
Written for me so long ago...
You will be the Chronicler...
Crona... (echoes)
An image of Crona dreaming of her past and her mother holding her in her arms in a loving gesture and singing her to sleep. Her father looking down lovingly at both of them as he nuzzles both of them. Love... deep as the largest ocean and as compassionate as a loving kiss of warm sunlight is felt from both of them as she yawned and curled up as a hatchling between them. Their loving presensce guiding her to sleep... As these dreams of her past continued to play out tears of sorrow...
Of regret and loss rolled down her cheeks as one question whispered across her mind. 'Why? Why did my mother have to die and leave me and my father alone....?' Natalie sees her new friend's tears and sats down next to her placing her left wing over her to calm her her troubled heart.
'Whatever troubles you, my friend, I am here to help you deal with it.' Then she closes her eyes and goes to sleep as the campfire burns brightly in the moonlit night.
Just have faith and believe in yourself
You are not alone.
You will find you way
To your destiny...
Image of Crona fighting against another dragoness. Crona is knocked down and is struggling to get up as the the other dragoness begins to attack her again only to be knocked out cold by the timely arrive of Ethan. He smiles as he reaches down and helps Crona back onto her feet. Afterward he joins both Crona and Natalie on their journey across the desert. The screen fades out to only show Crona sitting by a lake. The warm waters ripple as they showed her many of her childhood memories as she glanced into the mirror-like surface. She suddenly senses someone behind her and quickly jumps to her feet spinning around to see a dragoness wearing armor. Crona's eyes go wide as she gets a glimpse of the face of the dragoness. It was her mother! She runs toward her only to see her fade away into thin air like a desert
mirage. Crona sinks down on her haunches as she begins to wept... However, her weeping ends abruptly as she hears her mother's singing voice:
'I am always watching over you
My little one...
I am always with you in your heart...
My child....
You are not alone...
Crona...
Find your destiny...
The time has come.
Crona...
You will find
Your secret destiny....
Crona...
Chronicler to be...
That is your destiny...
Your secret destiny...
Crona....
An image of all three weary travelers arriving at the Oracle's tower as the sun rises. They each look at one another as the doors open and the Oracle walks out to stare down at them. Her face creases in a warm grin as she says, "Welcome, Crona, Ethan and Natalie, I have been expecting you." She turns and gestures for them to follow her inside. Crona is the last to enter and as she does the camera does a close up pan shot of her as she turns to look out the door before it closes. She sees her mother smiling. Crona's face creases in a smile as a single tear rolls down her left cheek. The door then slowly closes...
As we hear Crona's poem...
"All my love... mother...
Thank you for giving life to me...
Oh mother, I will never forget thee...
Your loving eyes welcomed me into this life...
Your kind heart loved me and was my guiding light...
Your courageous spirit gave me the strength I needed to fight...
And your eternal soul will always live on in my heart...
We are two hearts, two souls joined together for all time...
Mother, I know I'll never be alone...
Because you will always be with me in my heart....
All my love..., Crona..."
- Mother of My Heart -
A poem by Crona...
Final image of Adult Crona sitting at her desk with Ethan and Natalie standing behind her as she opens up her book. She lifts her quill pen from her robes as Ethan and Natalie smile behind her and starts writting...
"This is my story...."
The screen fades to black as the title appears on screen in gold letters....
~...|Secrets of the Chroniclers|...~
- The Crona Chronicles -
--~EPISODE 2: PRELUDE TO DESTINY~--
Part 2 of 4: Awakening...
Flashback...
I, the little wyrmling dragoness, wept as I heard my mother's dying scream. There was nowhere to hide, as everything had turned into a great, big battlefield. Suddenly a pair of large apes got through the defensive barrier of fighting adults who were desperately trying to protect what was left the young, old and injured. The large armored barbarians sprung forth and grabbed the nearest youngling by the tail. It was my dear friend Arcadia, and I could do nothing as I witnessed the ape, rip the wyrmling apart as she screamed and her blood spilled to the blood-soaked ground. I was horrified, I didn't know if I wanted to scream or cry, but I did know that I had to get out of the way – and fast.
'What the...?' Crona thought as she fought to stay conscious as she fought to not only hold up the barrier against Cynder/Carla's powerful fury attack but also the pain the burning energy of the Celestial power that Spyro was feeding her unwillingly by accident. 'Why are my past memories being shown to me at this moment? What is happening to meee....?!'
As those thoughts passed through her mind Crona screamed as she finally lost her battle against the celestial energy that flowed in a searing burning wave thru her. As this happened glowing silver runes began to appear on her white scales as Spyro's purple eyes went wide as he watched this happened. 'Noooo, Crona...! What have I done?' As soon as those thoughts passed through his mind and out his mouth in a low hushed tone everything went black as he too lost consciousness along with everyone else....
I looked around, but couldn't see my father anywhere. I had to come up with a plan, and eventually thought about the great forest, which was not far away. I had to reach it before more apes broke thru the defense lines. I ran towards the great forest, in the opposite direction of the battlefield, I could not yet use my wings to fly, so I hurried on foot, as fast as my small four legs could carry me. Suddenly, when I could see the borders of the forest, a terrifying war cry sounded, not far behind me. One of the smaller apes had broken through, and started to pursue me. It gained on me very fast, and caught up with me just as we reached the first trees. It swung its huge chained weapon at me, but I was fast, and not an easy target to hit. I managed to avoid the deadly, crushing metal, and quickly changed direction to try and hide from the beast. After what felt like hours of running from my enemy, the pain in my body began to take its tow. I struggled up a large tree, but this was not the end. The ape had heard me and came up to snatch me, but I, in my pain and anger, had had enough. I sat up in the tree, stuck my head down the trunk, just as the ape jumped up the tree and opened my mouth to bite him as hard as I could in the throat, it gasped but could not scream as I had bit it in such a way to silence it. I now carried the entire weight of my fainted enemy in my neck, and I couldn't hold it any longer. I tried to let go, but my teeth had gotten stuck in the throat of the ape. MY feet started to slip when I tried to get a better grip of the tree trunk, and as this happened I fell...
I was knocked unconscious, lying on the ground on top of my enemy, as we both hit the hard ground together.
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Present...
Crona's eyes fluttered open as she groaned and slowly flapped her wings as she hovered in front of her friends. She gritted her teeth as pain shot thru her whole body...
"I...must...focus...! Must...get...us...to...safety!" She hissed as she closed her eyes and focused her energy to open a portal. She knew she had to hurry because the fury wave was almost on top of them. 'Please dear ancestors give me the strength to make this work!' As that plea echoed thru her mind she felt her power rise and as it did she and the others began to fade. 'Yes... it is working....' She focused harder and as she did a portal began to swirl around them as she used her power to teleport them all to safety and as she did the horrible, searing pain. Her face started crease in a smile that quickly evaporated as the same searing pain that had burned through her body earlier returned with a vengence making her scream and nearly fall from the sky as she blacked out again...
As this happened an elder white dragon's glowing eyes opened as he sensed the presence of one of his kind...
A young female...
The elder male slowly pulled himself upright as he prepared himself for the coming task of training a new Chronicler of Ages...
"Crona, I am coming..." He said as elegant robes appeared around his muscular form and he roared alerting the waking world that ...
He, Chronos the FIRST Chronicler of Ages was back and awake....
Meanwhile...
Crona managed to teleport them all away just a few split seconds before Carla/Cynder's powerful fury wave would have killed them all. They re-appeared right in central area of her great, great grandfather home, Chronicler's Keep. As they fully materialize Crona, who was barely conscious, looked up from her position on the floor as Magus, her great, great grandfather and the current Chronicler of Ages quickly made his way over to them.
"Crona?" Crona opened her mouth to speak but instead of being able to respond the searing, burning pain returned making her scream as the silver runes returned. Magus' eyes went wide in shock. "CRONA!" He yelled just as the Oracle walked into the chambers and noticed their unconscious or barely conscious visitors on the floor. Deciding not to ask any question she quickly assisted Magus in getting them all to bed...
Mysterious Underground Chamber
A large, gold tiger-striped dragoness sat meditating as her aid and assistant entered the room. The male white feathered dracogriff slowly padded up to her trying to remain silent as he raised his taloned left paw to bring it down on her head. Reesa's left glowing eye quickly snapped opened out of reflex as she caught his paw in mid-swing. His broad beak creased in a smile as he jumped back, his body glowing as his battle armor vest appeared on his over his feathered chest. Reesa glanced on at her assistant with look of boredom on her face. He noticed and took up a battle pose, his sharp greenish gold eyes narrowing as he said, "Defend yourself, my lady!"
She groaned as she stood up, stretching as she did. "Oh come on, Gabriel, give me a break. I have already trained enough for today." Gabriel frowned as he relaxed his pose.
"I know, Lady Reesa, but you must always be ready for battle for it could come at any time. Besides your mother wants me to keep you in shape and it is my duty, as your assistant to keep you out of danger." Reesa rolled her eyes at his comment. The dracogriff had been one her closest friends ever sense they had first met many years ago. The two of them had become a team and had gone many places together as they both trained, learning how to each become more proficent warriors. Reesa smiled at the memories of when she had first met Gabriel. He had been much smaller then her then but as the years had past he had grown to be equal in size to her, his body gaining greater muscularity.
'Does he like me... hmmm... I wonder.' She thought as she said, "Really, I thought that was what a 'guardian' does. You are just my assistant, not my my guardian unless you are voluntaring for that duty..." She smiled as Gabriel chuckled, his face taking on a slight blush that was visible to her despite his thick white feathers. "Well... Gabriel, are you voluntarying to be my guardian? Hmmmm...."
"Heh heh.... not really." He said as he sat down slowly so as not to sit on his long feathery tail. "I just want you to be safe... That's all. And because I... I..." He sighed and dropped his head. "...Nevermind." Reesa walked over to sat in front of him.
"You like me... don't you?" She asked. Gabriel shook his head. "Don't lie to me. Look me in the eye and let me see the truth." Gabriel reluctantly glanced up into her eyes and as he did she saw the truth. She didn't know how she knew she just knew. It had been a power she had gained years earlier. She could look at almost anyone and tell when they were being honest or lying to her. Gabriel's true feelings for her were as easy to see reflected back at her in his eyes as seeing her reflection in clear mountain stream. "You do like me!" He dropped his head again and nodded, eyes closed.
"Yes, I do. But it would never work out between us." He said, his tone one of sadness as he started to stand and leave. Reesa stopped him as she pulled him into a hug.
"How do you know? Anything is possible if you don't give up." She slowly stood releasing him as she headed outside. She stopped and glanced back at him, her face creased in a smile. "Well, are you coming?" His beak curved up into a smile as he stood.
"Right away, my lady."
TO BE CONTINUED....
(AUTHOR'S NOTE: The flashback moments were originally written by Skratchcat, Crona's creator. I have only slightly modified them to fit in the context of this new series.)
New Song 'Wandering Spirit' begins to play...
Image of Crona staring up at the night sky as shooting stars fly by...
I am wandering who am I...
Somebody please tell me.
Because I want to know....
Wandering Spirit..
You will see...
Images in the stars above play in front of Crona as she sees her younger self with her mother playing and hugging as she lay next to both her and her father. Young Crona's innocent face is seen smiling one last time as she hugs her mother around the neck before they both explode into light as they become stars once more. Tears roll down Crona's cheeks as she sees these memories in her mind. She sats up and places her head in her paws and starts to cry...
Wandering Spirit...
Carry Me Home..
Wandering Spirit...
Back into my mother's loving arms.
Image of Ethan coming out to sat beside her and pull her gently into his arms to comfort her.
She pulls back slightly as she looks into Ethan's gentle eyes as he smiles. He open his arms as she falls into them as they both together hold each other...
No longer alone...
Wandering Spirit
You are not alone...
Wamdering Spirit
Wander no more....
For you have found your love.
Final Image of Ethan and Crona sleeping in each others arms as Crona's mother watches over them with a loving smile on her face. "Sleep well, my dear daughter..."
*Waving....* Guess what, its me Crona
I'm here to tell you what is coming up next time....
Next time on Secrets of the Chroniclers: The Crona Chronicles:
I come face to face with the people who I will share my life's journey and destiny with, including Ethan. Then there is Reesa and boy she is going to be a real pain in the ass to deal with. My story continues in:
Episode 3: Prelude to Destiny: Part 3 of 4: Rivals of Destiny
All this and more happens next time.... Until then... I am Crona *winks and grins*
Take care...