[Well here's my next chapter I hope you enjoy it and PLEASE R&R this chapter!]
All characters from "The Legend of Spyro" belong to Activision. [ My OCs will make their debute in the next chatper.]
It has been three weeks since Spyro and Cynder had left for the belt of fire with Ignitus in order to stop Malefor from destroying the world. Sparx was flying through the halls of the Dragon Temple in Warfang with a message for Cyril from Volteer. Even though he hasn't heard a word about Spyro and Ignitus (and even Cynder for that matter) he wasn't worried a bit. After all he and Spyro went through together up to when they parted ways near the dam, there was no fucking way that Spyro and the others would go down so easily. Sparx found Cyril in the library doing some research on some of the ruins that appeared after Spyro and the others defeated Malefor. Sparx darted over to Cyril, making sure not to surprise him when he spoke and said, "Hey ice man! How's the reading going?"
"Quiet well, yet troublesome. I just can't find any record of these new ruins…do you need something?" answered Cyril,
"Not me blue dude Volteer, he wants to see you in the "Room of Visions" about something…as to what I have no idea. I mean how can anyone understand him when he flaps his lightning mouth?"
"Indeed, well thank you for the message Sparx I'll be there shortly as soon as I'm done here." Cyril said as he turned back to his books.
After Sparx delivered Volteer's message he left Cyril and the library. As he left Sparx thought back to that day the world was saved by Spyro and Cynder…..
[Flash back three weeks ago]
The bright purple light that suddenly flashed and temporary blinded everyone finally died down and the ground stopped shaking. Sparx still too scared to look asked, "Are we dead yet?"
"No, I think that Spyro and the others have done it!" said Terrador, slowly Terrador and the others moved toward the entrance of the cave they were taking shelter in. As they stepped out of the cave and reached the ledge overlooking the river and lands around them, they saw the great changes of their world. Fragments of the ground floated in the air while ancient ruins long since buried by time were now exposed to the inhabitants of the world above, the Ring of Fire was gone as was the temple that Malefor suspended in the air above the mountain were the Destroyer had emerged from.
"They have done it," Terrador said then turned to those who were still inside the cave and said "Spyro and Cynder have done it. Malefor has finally been defeated!" cheers erupted from inside the cave. "Now let us return, rebuild our homes, and await our three heroes!" Terrador concluded as more cheers came from the citizens of Warfang and Avalar. Terrador and the other Guardians turned to go back to Warfang through the underground tunnel when Sparx stopped and turned around looking toward the remains of the mountain,
"Come back soon Spyro, come back with the old guy and Cynder." Sparx said surprising himself with what he just said and quickly turned back around to go with the others to Warfang. About nine days had passed since then and everyone began to worry about Spyro, Cynder, and Ignitus. Many have suggested that they formed a search party and should go looking for them, but there wasn't enough people available to spare to form a search party. Everybody was focused on either rebuilding Warfang or hunting down the remainder of Malefor's pawns.
"Sigh…I wish we go and look for Spyro and the others." said Terrador,
"So do we all Terrador, but we simply don't have the numerical forces required to perform such a vast search parameters around the mountain not to mention all of the relief efforts and hunting down what's left of Malefor's armies and…and" said Volteer talking fast as he usually does when he is either excited or flustered over something.
"Err…uh, that is quite enough of that excessive tongue of yours Volteer," said Cyril "we all understand that we're short on available personnel to form a proper search party."
"Speak for yourself." said Sparx in an undertone,
"The point is that we just need to be patient and wait for them." Cyril concluded,
"Yeah chill green dude. Remember when Spyro fought Cynder? He used up a lot of his strength during that fight, so fighting Malefor would really knock him out for a while even with Cynders' help so they will need time to rest right?" said Sparx, "Spyro and the others will be back when they have recovered from that fight."
Terrador chuckled and said "You know what, he's right. We do need to wait for them to return. After a battle like that they would need some time to recover their strength from a battle that fierce."
"I'M RIGHT? That makes it the second time in my life that I've been right." With that said Terrador and the other two Guardians returned their focus to rebuilding the city of Warfang while Sparx helped out by being a messenger for everyone.
[Back to the present]
When Sparx was done reminiscing he found himself hovering over a balcony overlooking eastern part of Warfang, he moved over to sit on the railing and began to think about his brother Spyro. "Hurry up and get here already you guys." Sparx thought to himself, he sighed heavily Sparx was, in truth, really worried about Spyro and the others. He shook his head and told himself to not get too worked up over this or he'll start to go nuts. He got up and started to head back to where Volteer had asked him to go after delivering his message. Sparx entered the room Volteer asked him to be when he heard a familiar voice shout his name "Sparx!" When Sparx looked up to see who called him he was stunned, there standing in front of him was his brother Spyro and Cynder with him.
"S…Spyro…a…and Cynder…?" Sparx gasped,
"Hey bro, and yes it's us." said Spyro,
"SPYRO!" Sparx shouted as he zipped toward his brother and hugged him on the snout almost going up his nostril! [Now that would both be uncomfortable and annoying I mean who would want essence of Sparx in their nose for 24 hours?] "I KNEW IT, I KNEW YOU GUYS WERE ALIVE!" Sparx cried while tears flowed from his eyes.
"Okay, okay take it easy Sparx! I'm happy to see you too and you're starting to hurt my snout." Spyro said in a slightly strange voice [It's the kind of voice we make when we hold our noses as we talk through them],
"And I know you'll be shocked to hear this but, I'm just as glad to see you too Cynder!" Sparx said as he let go of his brother's snout and YET AGAIN Sparx was right they were surprised to hear him say that! [Is it just me or is Sparx on a roll here?] "I know crazy right?"
"Well either way I'm also glad to see you too Sparx." Said Cynder
"When did you two crazy love birds get back?" asked Sparx,
"About two hours ago." answered Spyro,
"WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME!?"
"I already told you when I asked you to go and get Cyril earlier but clearly you hadn't heard me tell you this wondrous news, information, knowledge, event, err, um, uhhhh…" Volteer said in his usual high speed gibberish,
"How can anyone understand what this guy says anyways?" asked Sparx everyone chuckled at that (everyone cept Volteer that is).
"Well now that we've had our little reunion it's time down to business." Said Cyril,
"What business?" asked Spyro,
"Why enrolling you into the academy of course!" answered Terrador,
"Academy?" Spyro and Cynder both asked,
"Why yes, before the war with the apes the temples were once a series of academies mostly for the dragons in that region." explained Volteer, "However, during the war many of the temples were destroyed or very badly damaged so now the temple here in Warfang will act as the overall academy until the other temples are repaired or completely restored." he finished,
"Why should we enroll into the academy?" asked Cynder,
"Just because you learned how to fight and use the four elements doesn't mean that there isn't anything else to learn," said Cyril,
"Yes and besides as the purple dragon and the one exposed to the darkness there may be other elements that you two could learn with the ones you have now. So we need to check and see if that is the case." said Terrador,
"Indeed, you two will be taking arithmetic, reading and writing, history, advanced elemental training, and proper mating procedures." said Volteer. After hearing that last one Spyro and Cynder's faces turned slightly red and gave each other the uh oh look.
"Ohhhh I think you might've struck something there Volt, are we going to see any eggs anytime soon?" Sparx teased, now their faces went really red as they both shouted,
"SPARX!" Sparx and the Guardians had a good laugh from that one,
"Don't worry young ones." said Cyril "Normally mating at your age would be highly frowned upon however do to your efforts with Malefor and everything we'll give you some leeway with things one of which is this. The other would be the matter of your rooms or in your case room. One of the academies rules is that the males and female dragons have separate dorms and are therefore not allowed to share a room with the opposite gender."
[Translation: No co-ed arrangements!]
"Instead the two of you will share a room. After everything that happened I'm sure that you don't want to be separated." said Terrador. Even though they were happy about that they were still somewhat uncomfortable over that particular subject and how the Guardians were talking about it. "So I'm guessing that old Ignitus is rest or something since he's not here." asked Sparx [oh now noticed] upon hearing the fire guardian's name Spyro suddenly seemed to be down casted.
"Hey what's the matter buddy?" Sparx asked,
"Sparx, Ignitus is no longer with us, he gave his live so that Spyro and Cynder could make it through the belt of fire." said Terrador. Sparx was stunned by that and trying to cheer up his brother or at least change the subject he asked,
"So…uh…um…w…what happened to you two after Malefor's defeat anyways?" Spyro was still down casted to answer so Cynder did,
"After Malefor was defeated and Spyro managed to keep the world from falling apart we ended up on one of the floating islands. At least that's what we found out once the both of us recovered from our battle with Malefor."
Then Spyro began to talk, "After we rested for a day we were well enough to move and looked around for red and green gems to heal our injuries and restore our strength but we couldn't fly though, our wings were still very sore from when Malefor rammed us into the wall as we descended inside of the volcano."
[more like fell into the volcano to me]
"As we looked around we found a very old temple or something. It was as big as the temple in the swamp or maybe even bigger but we couldn't tell, there were several dragon statues outside or what was left of them anyways." said Cynder,
"We were able to make out a few things from the pedestals that were still intact," Spyro continued, "each of the pedestals had the symbols of fire, water, earth, and electricity. Once we reached the door it was really strange it was as big as the front gates of Warfang and it was made of stone with many strange designs on it. The designs on the door were too worn off to tell what they were. We tried to get inside, but the door wouldn't budge no matter what we were able to do at that time."
"We looked around the door for a lever or switch to open the door, but we couldn't find anything. Until Spyro got close to the right side of the door, the blue crystal that was in the frame of the door glowed and then these runes appeared right after." said Cynder "Neither of us ever saw these runes before so we couldn't make them out."
"So we left the temple for the time being, but we made sure to note where the temple was for when we could go back there." concluded Spyro.
"Then you two got busy with each other right? Uh, uh, uh, uh!" teased Sparx making gestures in the air and that got Spyro and Cynder really tick off as they both shouted,
"THAT DOES IT SPARX! COME HERE!" and they chased after him as he zipped outta there and cried, "MOMMY!" that really cracked up the guardians as they watched the three of them run around and out the door. Little did they know that an old friend was watching and laughing with them.
Far, far away from Warfang, across the sea, within the Celestial Temple on the White Islands was the former fire guardian now the new Chronicler Ignitus. Ignitus was watching Spyro and Cynder chasing after Sparx in his Pool of Vision before the surface of the water changed back to normal showing his reflection in the pool. His scales, once red with an orange underside, were now a blue colored, he wore a mantel with books attached to the end near his tail, and a crystal around his neck.
One of the books on the nearby shelf floated over to him with a note on the cover. It said;
"To the reader of this note, it has been the duty of the Chronicler to record the history of the dragon race and others of this realm. Now that duty is yours to bear, this book is of prophecies to come may it help you find the protectors of the dark times in the years to come.
May the ancestors watch over you,
Your Predecessor, The Chronicler (Timeirous).
Ignitus was caught completely off guard by the very last thing in the note, ("Timeirous,") he said to himself ("I remember correctly that name from long ago. It was the name of a dragon who claimed to have reached another realm beyond this one without going through the Portal of Convexity. A realm where an evolved form of apes called humans resided. Many dragons didn't believe him and thought that he had a strange dream. Yet to see his name here after all this time and learn that he was my predecessor makes me wonder if he had told the truth after all.") Ignitus took a closer look at the book in front of him. It was fairly thick, (as thick as the human thumb is as long) it was navy blue with gold trimmings, and the title of the book was "The Dragon Oracle" he opened the book and read the writing on the inside cover. The writing said;
"As the prophecies of old have come to fruition they fade away to make room for the next prophecies yet to take place."
Judging from the brief passage Ignitus deduced that the when a specific prophecy comes true that very prophecy disappears from the pages of this book only to be replaced by another prophecy that will start to come true later on. Ignitus turned the first page to see what new prophecy he would have to watch out for, as he read the prophecy his face became grim as he continued. When he had finished reading the prophecy he said, "By the ancestors, this can't be…"
What Ignitus had read went as follows;
"Upon the fall of the betrayer and self-proclaimed cleanser,
As the land is ever closer to the sky,
The ancient bane shall reawaken bringing with him his dark power and knowledge of destruction and death,
The worlds' only hope of salvation is the combined might of the slayers of the betrayer and the warriors of a distant world of humans."
Ignitus reread the prophecy to make sure that he didn't misread, to his disappointment he didn't read it wrong. The last thing Ignitus wanted to do was bring Spyro and Cynder back into harm's way. Yet once more he was the last word in this passage caught his attention, after he looked up from the book he whispered, "The world of humans…?"
[Well that's two chapters down. Took me a while to figure out how to do this bit. Anyway, please R&R and it may be awhile for number 3 to appear.]
Signing off for now! PEACE!
