Chapter two
I do not own spyro or call of duty if I did I would never have made skylanders. Well everybody I promised for chap 2 to be longer than the first so here you go chapter two
A new world
Jackson awoke some time later, his vision was dark and his head ached,
He placed his right hand on his forehead groaning in discomfort.
"Oh good, he's awake" said a female voice.
Jackson opened his eyes and to his amazement a humanoid mole was walking towards him.
"what the hell?" he thought to himself
"how do you feel?" the mole asked.
Jackson was stunned he didn't know what to say.
As he examined the room he was in he noticed other moles each only about three feet tall tending to much larger creatures to which he could only describe as humanoid cheetahs and dragons.
He noticed his weapons and ammo laying on the ground next to the makeshift bed he was sitting on.
"A little confused" he finally said
"where am I… how did I get here?" he asked as he slowly sat up keeping an eye on the creature
"we were hoping you could tell us that" a deep male voice boomed.
Jackson turned his head to see three large dragons walking towards him.
Now he was tall standing at 6'5 but these dragons were twice his size and accompanying them were two smaller dragons that were roughly shoulder height with Jackson
"I'm Terrador guardian of earth and this is Cyril and Volteer guardians of ice and electricity, we are the leaders of the city of warfang" the deep voice dragon said gesturing to himself then to the dragons by his side.
"Two days ago there was a loud clap of thunder and then an intense bright white light flashed then you appeared in the middle of a black circle in the ground unconscious and covered in blood, we thought you were dead on sight then our medical experts tended to your wounds" he explained.
Terrador is a large green dragon with a light brown underbelly and wing membranes, he has two horns that curve like ram horns and a mace like tail blade.
Cyril is a large ice blue dragon with a dark blue underbelly and wing membrane, he has two horns protruding straight from the back of his head and a spiked tail blade
Volteer is a large yellow dragon with an electric blue underbelly and yellow wing membranes, he has two horns protruding from his head in a wavy pattern and a lightning bolt shaped tail blade.
Jackson sat there shocked trying to figure out what was going on when he asked "two days? but how? And what's warfang?" everyone in the room gave him shocked expressions and the guardians gave a few undetectable words
"Where are you from?" asked terrador after a short pause
"I'm from a place called earth and if you don't mind, I'd like to wake up out of this wacked out dream and get back there" Jackson replied
"We assure you that this is no dream and if you're from this so called earth then how did you get here?" asked Cyril
"I don't know one minute I'm in the middle of a war then there's this voice and light, and I woke up here" he answered
"Voice? What voice? What did it say?" asked Volteer in a faster than usual manner
"it said that this is not my end, that I still have much to accomplish and before I blacked out it said 'wake up' but even unconscious I could still hear those words echoing in my head" said Jackson as he recalled what the voice had said
"interesting" Tarrador murmured
"I want you to fallow us to the temple and answer a few questions if you don't mind"
Jackson thought for a minute thinking if they were going to kill him they would have done it by now, then nodded grabbing his gear and weapons before fallowing the guardians out of the building and into the city streets.
Once outside Jackson was awe struck the buildings were made out of a mixture of sand stone and lime stone causing the entire city to appear made out of gold in the evening sunlight. The city was filled with various creatures from the cheetahs and moles that walked like humans to the dragons that flew high in the sky.
"wow" he thought to himself
"this way" said Terrador as they preceded to move through the city.
After a few minutes they came to a stop in front of a large building, it was made out of the same stone as the rest of the city but it had a series of ornate carvings and gold statues of dragons adorning it, the entrance has a large stone archway with an oak wood door.
In front of the entrance stood two dragons in battle worn armor both were ice blue and looked exactly the same except one of them had a nasty scar going from the upper left side of his head to the lower right side of his jaw leaving his left eye blind.
The guards opened the door and saluted the guardians as they passed and closed the entrance behind them.
Once inside Jackson began to inspect the interior, the walls and floors were made out of marble, large stone pillars held the high ceilings, elaborate paintings of various battles and heroes of war hung on the walls and a huge stone statue of a dragon stood in the middle of the room.
"it's amazing isn't it" one of the smaller dragons that came with the guardians asked "I'm spyro by the way and this is cynder"
Jackson nodded to each of them and continued through the temple ascending a large stair case going to the next floor
Spyro is a medium sized purple dragon with a golden underbelly and wing membrane he has two golden horns protruding from his head and curving back to a point. And a barb shaped tail blade.
Cynder is a medium sized black dragoness with a ruby red underbelly and wing membrane, she has six silver horns protruding from the back of her head and a silver scythe shaped tail blade.
As they walked Jackson couldn't help but notice the strange looks he was getting from everyone in the temple
"No this isn't uncomfortable at all" he said sarcastically in his head.
"Good we're here" said Terrador as they came to a stop in the front of a large oak wood door.
Once inside Jackson noticed that the room looked like the first except it had a small pool of green water in the middle
"So tell us what's your name" Terrador began,
"Sargent Paul Jackson U.S.M.C. first force recon company, but I go by Jackson"
"With the title Sargent I assume you are a warrior of some sort" terrador asked.
"a soldier actually" he corrected
"so Jackson is it, you mentioned you were in a war what happened how did it start" volteer asked in the same fast pace manner almost too fast for Jackson to understand.
So Jackson spent the next few hours telling them about earth and the war in the middle east explaining why they were fighting even though at times he didn't know himself.
Telling them about Al-Asahd, the nukes, and the battle he almost died in.
When he finished the dragons stood there awe struck by the story when Cyril finally spoke
"that's quite a tell but how are we sure it's true or not" he said skeptically
"that's why we're here" Terrador said as he walked over to the pool of water. This is the pool of visions with it we can see the thoughts memories and dreams of others and with it we can see if what you say is true or not so I need you to lay next to the pool with your head over the water and think of a memory of your world"
Jackson fallowed the instructions figuring he had no choice and began thinking of one of the darker points of the war that he wished he could forget.
At first nothing happened but after a few moments the water began to glow and the memory came into view.
Flashback
June 13 2010 14:32 hours
Afghanistan
The convoy of armored trucks and jeeps came into view.
As they barreled down the scorching sands of the dessert the only thing that could be seen for miles around were the rolling hills of sand and scattered rocks.
Jackson and his company had been assigned to escort a weapons transport through hostile territory to an ally base earlier that morning.
In the jeep with him was his company leader Lieutenant Vasques and private Allen who had been assigned to the first force earlier that week.
Allen was the one driving when the song sound of madness by shinedown came on the jeeps radio.
He was drumming on the steering wheel bobbing his head to the rhythm and mouthing the lyrics
"Yea I get it you're an outcast, Always under attack, Always coming in last, Bringing up the past, No one owes you anything, I think you need a shotgun blast, A kick in the ass, So paranoid, WATCH YOUR BACK!" but the song was cut short when Jackson turned off the radio glaring at him.
"Pay attention to the road" he ordered
"you need to lighten up Sarg keep up tight like that and the stress will kill you long before the enemy's bullets do" Allen replied
"you know what your right and maybe you should tell yourself that after you've run over a I.E.D because you were too distracted to pay at attention to the damn road! Now stop your belly aching and drive private!" Jackson scolded him.
Vascues grinned at this.
Jackson had been promoted to sargent only a week now and he had already taken to the position.
Everything was quiet for the moment but the silence was broken when an R.P.G. was fired from one of the hills hitting and destroying the lead jeep.
Twenty Taliban soldiers then rushed out from cover opening fire on them.
Before they could react however another R.P.G was fired from behind another hill destroying the jeep at the rear boxing them in.
"AMBUSH, RETURN FIRE!" shouted Vacues as he Jackson and Allen climbed out of the jeep using it as cover.
The rest fallowing suit and returning fire.
As the gun battle raged on ten of the allied soldiers were killed, either shot or were too close to the explosions of grenades but only four of the enemy were killed in the chaos.
Jackson lined up his M4A1 with the head of his target.
But before he could fire a third R.P.G. was launched towards his position
"INCOMING" shouted Jackson as he dived towards the ground clasping his hands over his head waiting for the impact.
He did not have to wait long before the projectile slammed into the jeep bursting into flames the shockwave from the explosion was so extreme that it caused Jackson to lose consciousness.
Present time
Dragon temple
After the vision ended, Jackson sat up, looking at the shocked expressions of the dragons in the room.
When Terrador spoke "it appears that what you speak is the truth, but how is it possible?"
"I share your query as well Terrador, it truly is remarkable, stupendous, amazing, to be in the presents of a creature from a completely different world, it's truly astonishing" said Volteer as he began inspecting Jackson closely
"Yes Volteer this is a monumental day but we've got more pressing matters to tend to, like what to do with him" said Cyril as he shifted his attention from Volteer to Jackson
"there will be time for that later but for now its late and our guest must be hungry spyro, cynder I want you two to escort Jackson here to the dining hall while we discuss living arrangements" said Terrador
"Yes sir" spyro nodded and gestured for Jackson to fallow as they left the room and began walking down the long hallway.
Jackson couldn't help but wonder if he was making the right choice trusting these creatures. But he had no choice in the mater
'Its better than dyeing on the battle field' he thought to himself as they made a turn down another hallway leading to a large oak wood door.
When they reached the end spyro opened the door and the three of them entered the dining hall.
It was a large room three times bigger than the guardians room it had eight long tables on either side of the room, silver platters of food were being laid out for the various creatures.
Spyro sat down on his hunches next to the table like the rest of the dragons with cynder by his side while Jackson sat in one of the human sized chairs that the cheetahs and moles used.
Everyone received a variety of different foods a mostly vegetarian diet for the moles, a mixture of fruits and meats for the cheetahs and the dragons received large chunks of meat.
Jackson grabbed a baked potato and a drumstick of what he hoped was chicken.
As he began eating, spyro explained about their world and the war that just ended about six months ago explaining about Malifore and his corruption.
How Malifore made cynder into a weapon of destruction, a puppet of his will and how it think to spyro that she is freed from the corruption
"And I thought the wars back home were bad" said Jackson as he finished his meal
"But it's over now" said cynder as she and spyro finished their meals.
"it doesn't matter to force someone against their will to commit terrible acts like that is wrong and it's a good thing he's gone now" said Jackson as he looked cynder directly in the eye meaning every word.
"Thank you but I'm fine and besides it's all in the past now and that's all that matters" she said as she looked over at spyro smiling as he draped a wing over her back then nuzzled him.
As the night went on Terrador entered the room with the other Guardians behind him
"I hope you found your meal to your liking" said terrador as he came to a stop in front of Jackson who nodded in response
"good" he continued "we figured out your sleeping arrangements since the city is packed with refugees we are short on space so Jackson you will be staying with spyro and cynder until we can find a more suitable arrangement is this okay with you two?" He asked getting a nod from both spyro and cynder.
"Good and Jackson we are also shorthanded on guards and we could always use the extra help and we would like to test your combat skills to see how well you can defend yourself"
"When do I start?" Jackson asked
"tomorrow but for right now get some sleep, it's going to be a long day" Terrador finished before walking out of the dining hall.
Soon after the two dragons and human walked to their sleeping quarters it was a large room with two large sleeping pillows that act as makeshift beds for the dragons a large window overlooking the city and a book shelf with different types of books and scrolls, as Jackson was looking over the room spyro dragged a third sleeping pillow out for him to sleep on
Jackson thanked him and removed his boots and gear then laid down and almost instantly fell asleep.
Midnight
Unknown location
A loan figure moves through the shadows of the night.
Moving swiftly through the dark leaping from broken and jagged stones, weaving between burned out trees and logs before coming to a stop at the remenance of a crumbling building the size of the dragon temple.
The creature stepped into the pale light of the full moon revealing that it was a dragon slightly larger than spyro and cynder, its solid white scales and crown of six horns shining like diamonds in the light of the moon.
It has a light blue underbelly and wing membranes, with a black tiger stripe pattern along both sides of its body and black diamond pattern on its forehead, its ice blue eyes peering into the dark entrance of the ruins.
"Its got to be here" the dragon said in a distinctively female voice before running inside.
Once inside the dragon came to a stop in the front of a loan pedestal with a book on it, the cover had a series of strange spiraling markings embedded into it.
"The book of souls" she said aloud as she ran a talon over the markings
"with this I will finally have my revenge for the murder of my father"
As she tried to grab the book though, a dark aura of energy erupted from it and a voice boomed like thunder
"eos" the voice called out to the dragon
"father?... i… is that you?" the dragon now known as eos studderd,
"eos its me although I no longer dwell in this world" the voice said
"but how?" She asked taking a step back in disbelief
"that does not matter but what maters is this book eos the book of souls is a powerful weapon but useless unless you know how to control its power"
"so what am I supposed to do then?" she said as she stepped forward tears forming in her eyes, the voice chuckled in response
"don't worry little one for I have a gift for you"
"a gift? What gift?" She replied tilting her head in confusion
"a gift of true power. My power and with it you will have your revenge"
"but how?" she asks skeptically
"just promise me that you will spill the blood of the purple dragon in my name and my power and army will be yours" the voice said and gave a demonic laugh
"I promise, Malifore" Eos said giving a toothy grin before being enveloped in a white light and levitating off the ground.
She felt a seemingly infinite surge of energy rush through her as this happened after a few moments the light receded and she settled back on the ground she then returned her attention to the book and began walking over to it
"Now nothing can stop me"
As she opened it up the first page was entitled 'ork summoning' and as she read the summoning out loud the earth beneath her feet began to shake as three large eight foot tall behemoth creatures emerged from the ground their very bodies were made of rock their eyes glowed blood read and they beared the same markings as the book on their bodies.
Eos approached them with caution as she studied them.
As she did so the creatures bowed down to her and the larger one of the group looked up
"We are at your service mistress" it said as she gave one last sadistic grin.
Well there you go chap 2 don't forget to leave a review or pm me until next time peace out
Ultimatedragon131
P.S.
I know I posted the chapter at the last minute but it was me and queenelizabeth16 8 month anniversary and just now got around to posting the chapter.