The Legend of Spyro: A New Journey
Chapter Three
Disclaimer: I do NOT own any of the Spyro characters. I only own Colin, Stacey, Eric and Stef. Fira belongs to Viperwatcher! NOT ME!
The Next Morning, the three dragons were waking up for the second day of school. Spyro and Cynder were the first to wake. They stretched like a cat would, cracking their bones into place. They soon walked out of their room towards the dining hall. They looked around to see if they could see Colin. When they did not find their silver friend, they walked to his room. They slowly opened the door to his room, trying not to wake him. He was in his bed. He looked so peaceful as his side rose and fell to his calmed breathing. Then, Cynder got and idea. She looked at Spyro with an evil grin on her face. Realizing what she wanted him to do, Spyro nodded and slowly walked up to Colin's sleeping body, trying not to wake him. He sent a weak flame towards Colin's tail. Feeling the fire, Colin's eyes shot open and he screamed in pain. "Not funny guys!" he yelled as he blew some ice on his tail to stop the burning. Spyro and Cynder dropped to the floor, rolling and laughing.
"You should have seen your face!" Cynder said while laughing. Her amusement was starting to go away so she could now talk.
"Yeah? Well you better watch your backs because I'm going to get you back one day!" Colin's returned.
"Oh I'm so scared"
"You should be…. Well let us go and eat before we have to get to school"
The three dragons then walked out of Colin's room and went back to the dining hall where it was left pretty much empty by everyone eating and leaving already. They went and ordered a sheep each before leaving the temple. On the way to the school, Colin had a sick feeling in his stomach. He told himself that it was just the sheep and pushed the thought to the back of his mind. When they arrived, they went right to the advanced combat training room. There they met Colin's friends, Eric and Stacey. The five dragons then entered as the bell rang to start class. Since the school was short on staff, there was no teacher for advanced combat training so they trusted the students to know their limitations. Spyro looked over his shoulder and noticed two city guards now standing at the door, guarding it after yesterday's incident. They were two large, green earth dragons wearing metal armor. This made them feel safe knowing that the settings would not be changed. The five young dragons soon finished their training and the bell rang for lunch. As they were walking towards the lunch room, Colin got the same sick stomach feeling and again pushed it away. After they were all done eating, Spyro and Cynder were listening as Colin, Stacey and Eric were talking about their plans for the evening. They were stuck on whether to go and hang out in the market or go to the sports complex and spar with each other. Cynder looked at Eric and saw that he was looking at Colin's neck. She then looked to see that there were three dried blood marks on his neck from where the general was choking him the night before. He then brought it up. "Hey Colin, is that dried blood on your neck? What did you do?"
"It was nothing. I just had a little run in with someone." Colin said, trying to remove the blood.
"A little run in?" Cynder cut in "You were full out atta-" she was cut off by Colin giving her a look as well as a low growl that she was only meant to hear. "Never mind" she said and looked to Spyro for comfort.
"What class do we have next Colin?" asked Spyro, trying to change the subject.
"Dragon Anatomy" he said with a sigh.
"What is wrong with the class?"
"Nothing is wrong with it. It is just very boring." Eric answered
"Yeah. Eric just pretty much summed up my answer, so shall we go?" Colin said as he was starting to stand up.
The other dragons soon followed Colin's movements and they all walked off to class. Right before they walked in, Colin once again got a sick stomach, but this time it was a lot stronger. "Now this is just getting weird..." He thought to himself as they walked into the classroom. The room had different levels of flooring. On each level, there were five white pillows in perfect lines. There were posters and dragon body maps on every wall of the room. At the front of the room, they saw a large wood desk and a chalkboard. The five dragons all sat in the farthest back row. When they were all seated, the teacher began. "Welcome everyone. Today, we will be learning about the bones in your body and what their names are." Spyro and Cynder listened very intently as the teacher spoke, while Colin, Stacey and Eric continued their talk from the lunch room. Colin then looked at the ceiling and saw cracks starting to form. He knew that the ceiling was going to collapse, and sent a wind attack towards his classmates and sent them all flying into the front of the classroom. As soon as he did, everyone started to yell at him but stopped when the ceiling collapsed in front of them. In front of them stood a teenage dragoness with crimson red scales and a black underbelly. She had white hors that curved a little at the end and sharp, white claws. But the biggest surprise was her eyes. They were red but the pupils were black slits like a feline's eye would be. She then sent the five dragons into the wall with an unknown force. Colin and Eric were the first two to stand back up. They then dropped into a battle stance. She looked at Colin and spoke "Ah, there you are you silver, overgrown lizard. Well it seems that I cannot trust my officers to eliminate you so I guess we have to do this the hard way" she then shot a fireball at Eric and knocked him out. She then got two of her minion dragons to go pick him up. Before Colin or the other can do anything, she said "If you want him back alive, come get him and trade your life for his" and she took off with her minions close behind. Colin then went and took off after her and screamed "GET BACK HERE YOU COWARD!" The dragoness looked behind her and saw Colin and his friends chasing after her. When she noticed, she sent a weak fireball at Colin with tremendous speed and he had no time to react and took the shot dead on. Colin was then knocked out and falling from the sky. Spyro, Cynder and Stacey dove after him but he was to far ahead. They heard Colin's body hit the ground with a sickening thud then the dragoness's evil laughter in the background. Spyro was the first to land beside Colin and pulled out a red crystal, ready for the worst. When he inspected him, he saw the burn mark on Colin's chest where the fireball had hit. Spyro used the red crystal and the burn mark disappeared, but Colin was still unconscious. Spyro shook him, trying desperately to wake him up, but to no avail. Spyro felt a tear run down his cheek as a teenage fire dragon ran up to them. Spyro noticed this and said "Who are you?"
"My name is Fira. I am in your class" When she was finished, she looked up and saw Terrador, who came running at the loud thud, and saw Spyro holding a dragon, crying. "What happened here? Who is thi-" he stopped when he saw who the dragon was. It was Colin. "Oh no…" he said. "Spyro, bring him to the infirmary NOW!" Spyro nodded and they all left for the temple immediately. For the next few days, all they could do was hope as Colin was still laying there motionless, but breathing. Fira did not leave his side the whole time. Soon, she fell asleep with her head on the edge of the bed.