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The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning
Chapter 4
Spyro had continued his trek through the swamp, still disheartened about leaving the only family and home he had ever known. Unbeknownst to the young purple dragon, he had been watched and stalked by the same mysterious Apes creatures from up above the cliffs and ledges. Spyro could hear the Apes as they cried out after leaping from cliff to cliff and remained quiet, as if attempting to drive the young dragon scared out of his mind. Spyro had attempted to continue on his way, until he heard a much larger Ape give a loud intimidating war cry, which was enough to make the young dragon's pupils shrink in size before he took off running, slightly scared from the new noise he just heard.
'What in the world was that? It sounded exactly like one of those baboon creatures...but much bigger!' The young dragon thought as he had continued running on his four legs until jumping off a ledge and gliding onto the swamp floor underneath him.
Spyro had glanced around, as he was not familiar with this area of the swamp. He spotted a dirt path rising upward and a ledge leading to another area of the swamp. He was about to continue forward until he hard a familiar croaking sound and spotted four Frogweeds popping out from underneath the soggy and moist soil.
'Huh, more Frogweeds, wonderful' Spyro could tell these Frogweeds had made themselves the 'goodbye committee' of the swamp and knew he had to take care of them, which didn't take to much time.
The young purple dragon had unleashed his newly learned fire breath and doused each Frogweed with a bath of flames as he struck each one with his horns and claws. Each single Frogweed gave a croak like groan after being attacked by the young dragon and slithering back underneath the swamp floor. Spyro had saw the beginning of the trail and started to move forward, until he noticed something unusual to his right. An unusual fat and white mushroom with had suddenly started quivering and revealed itself to be a strange creature, that was a cross between a mushroom and spider.
'This must be a Bulbspider. Mom and Dad told me and Sparx about them, how they disguise themselves at ordinary mushrooms and wait to strike on unwary prey.' Spyro told himself in his mind and immediately jumped above as the Bulbspider had leaped and spun around, attacking with its four spinning legs.
It gave a groan like growl as it missed the purple dragon and Spyro had immediately countered. He had lifted the Bulbspider into the air with a swift and strong blow with his horns and used charged into the ugly hybrid, sending it flying away towards the area he had defeated the Frogweeds.
Spyro had continued forward up the trail and defeated a second Bulbspider that had been laying dormant, until he almost approached it. He had torched the ugly creature with his fire breath and struck it across it's face with his horns and claws. The Bulbspider had simple gave a groan like roar, before dying from the burns that had consumed it and lied on the swamp floor, burning to ashes. Spyro looked away, as he had never seen a living creature slowly born to death...as he was the one whom set it ablaze with his fire breath. The young purple dragon had made it to the end of trail and glided across the small gap between and continued on with his trek, but not before defeating two other Bulbspiders that sprung to life after sensing his approach. This time Spyro, had rather a little trouble since the two Bulbspiders had ganged up on him and struck him twice their legs and mandibles, but took care of them with his fire breath and close combat attacks with his claws and tail.
Spyro took in a few light deep breathes, not from feeling the blows he took from fighting the Bulbspiders, but from all the walking, running and fighting. That was when he heard the hoots and cries from the Apes he encountered before.
"Corner him! Don't let him escape!" An Ape the young purple could fairly guess ordered the smaller Apes. But who was this 'him' they were attacking and talking about?
"Get away from me!" Spyro gasped as he heard a voice, the same age tone as his had cried out!
"Someone help! Please help me!" The mysterious voice had cried out, followed by Apes hooting and crying in pain could also be heard!
Knowing who or whatever it was the Apes were attacking, Spyro knew he had to help. So without wasting any time, the young dragon had sprinted into a fast run, dashing as fast as he legs could go as he followed the trail, which led to a clearing and saw it was filled an insane number of Apes.
"Hey!" The young dragon called out, which quickly earned half of the Apes attention.
"Another one?" A smaller Ape cried out confused, surprised to see another surviving dragon!
"Wait, that must be the one our comrades encountered yesterday!" Another smaller one cried out afterwards!
"Well, what you imbeciles waiting for?" A big Ape, no doubtingly the leader demanded, since he felt he and his group hit the jackpot!
"Get him! We'll be rewarded handsomely for bringing these two alive to Cynder!" The Ape leader ordered as he pointed towards the young dragon, which the smaller Apes complied as they charged in!
'Two of us? Does that mean that what it is these Apes are attacking is a...?' Spyro asked himself in surprise as the Apes had just said 'another one' and they'd be supposedly be rewarded for bringing 'them in alive'.
Spyro had snapped out of his thoughts and back into reality as he lowered his head and charged into an Ape charging right towards him. The Ape he tackled into had stumbled backwards, as being charged straight head on had caused him to lose his footing and became unbalanced. Spyro had continued the attack by striking the Ape soldier upward, leaped into the air and sent the Ape goon backwards and crashing the three other Apes, whom had charged in to attack him. The young purple dragon held his own as he battled every Ape that came at him, either scorching them his fire breath and striking at them with his horns, claws and tail. He even used their leader's sticks of dynamite against them, swatting the explosives away and it exploded, killing the Apes who were too slow or weak from the fighting to escape the blast radius.
That was when Spyro had felt a claw smacking across his face and sent him crashing against a sturdy, but strong rotted tree stomp on his side. Spyro had spotted that the Ape leader had joined in the fray and caught him off guard.
"You're all mine you little...AAHHH!" The Ape leader screamed as a sudden and mysterious lighting bolt had zapped him, paralyzing every nerve in his body as the high voltage of raw electricity had paralyzed his body and sent him flying upward. That was when the mysterious creature that the Apes were attacking had showed himself and return the favor; another surviving dragon!
Spyro gasped as he couldn't believe his own two eyes as he was looking at another dragon! He had several features similar to his own: they were both approximately 10 years old and had the same body build. That was when the surviving dragon turned around to look at him and Spyro got a better look at him. The dragon had light green scales over his body, yellow scale underbelly, bright yellow spiral horns and curved spines down his back; identical to his own, bright yellow wings with a shade of gold, silver claws at the tip of his front and rear paws and a fin spade like tip at the end of his tail.
"Are you alright..." The surviving dragon asked, but paused and looked just as surprised as Spyro as they both stared in shock at each other.
"Um...I'm, uh, fine." Spyro muttered as he still couldn't believe that he was looking at a creature just like him.
"Are you alright? I heard you calling out for help." The purple dragon added as he slowly got back on his own feet.
"Y-yeah, I'm okay. Thanks..." The dragon was caught off again as another wave of Apes had heard the fighting and joined in the battle.
"You can thank me later...after we take care of these annoying Apes." Spyro said as he glared at the incoming reinforcements.
"Let's take them." The surviving dragon replied as he stood by Spyro, ready to face the Apes. They had made a great team, even though they were strangers. Spyro and the surviving dragon had used their fire and electric breathes to defeat the Apes. The Apes realized they were fighting a losing battle as the two young dragon's were a greater threat together, as the had burned and electrocuted the Apes to death. The remaining Apes had fled in terror as they were no match for the two young dragons. Both Spyro and his new friend panted heavily, as they were exhausted from the non-stop battle.
"Are...you...alright?" The lime green dragon asked again, as they never got the chance to talk before.
"Yeah, I'm...okay. How about you?" Spyro asked, while noticing that the mysterious dragon had blushed softly.
"Yeah, I'm alright. Thank you for help, um?" The dragon asked and Spyro all of a sudden, couldn't help but admire how beautiful his new friend's eyes were; as the pupils and sclera were white and the iris were azure blue.
"Oh, um, my name is Spyro." The purple introduced himself, a little embarrassed for feeling distracted by his friend's eyes.
"Leon. My name is Leon. Nice to meet you Spyro." The dragon, Leon introduced himself and blushed a little for being shy and Spyro couldn't help but think how cute Leon looked.
That was when they heard a loud thump echo out and thundering foot steps approaching as the small bodies of water surrounding the area vibrated.
"What the heck is that?" Leon asked confused by what was making the ground shake!
"I hope it's not what I think it is..." Spyro answered as he feared to what the cause of the shaking was and to his and Leon's shock, three huge humanoid like monstrosities had shattered a wall that led to another different area of the swamp. The creatures were truly repulsive as they resembled ogres made from seaweed and vines from the swamp itself and had tentacle like fingers at the tip of their hands.
"What are those things?!" Leon asked as felt sick to his stomach after seeing the towering beasts approach them!
"Swamp Growths!" Spyro answered as he too was disgusted upon seeing the sight of those towering mutants. He remembered hearing stories of Swamp Growths being told by the other dragonflies, although he never saw one before himself, but now he and Leon were about to face three!
"Leon, listen carefully." Spyro told his friend as they had to defeat those Swamp Growths to pass through.
"Those things are big and strong, but they are very slow and not to smart. We can use our fire and electric breathes against them and out move them." The young dragon explained as he also heard stories that Swamp Growths were too slow and had weak defenses.
"Okay, Spyro. Let's do this." Leon said as he knew how to defeat those three disgusting creatures. They had charged in, using their fire and electric breathes to torch and paralyze the Swamp Growths. The towering beasts had growled and groaned in pain as the flames and lighting bolts had hurt them badly, but they were too slow to attack the two young dragons as they side stepped to avoid their attacks, as they attempted to flatten them with their club like weapons. The three beasts had groaned before collapsing face flat on their backs and dissolved into the swamp floor after being defeated by the two young dragons.
"Well...they're gone." Spyro said simply as he and Leon were exhausted from all the fighting.
"Hey, Spyro...I was thinking..." Leon started as he and Spyro got their breathing under control, although the blows they had received from fighting all those Apes.
"Thanking about what Leon?" The purple dragon asked, as he was curious to what was on the surviving dragon's mind.
"How about we travel together?" Leon proposed which took Spyro surprise!
"We did make a great team fighting together and those Apes would think twice about attacking us again, since we were easy targets traveling alone." The lime green dragon, explained as both he and Spyro did make a great team, even though they just met.
"That sounds like a plan Leon. Besides, I could use the company." Spyro smiled since he immediately took a liking to Leon and the lime green dragon had also took a quick liking to the purple dragon.
The two new friends had passed through the new trail that was now available, thanks to the Swamp Growths. The trail led to a chasm that led to a super high ledge that would be impossible for the two young dragons to reach, but noticed the two stone formations they could use to cross over to the next side. That was when Spyro and Leon groaned as they spotted three Apes, one big and two small blocking the ledge.
Leon had gone first and glided across to the ledge, but not before using his electric breath to paralyze and throw the three stupid monkeys off the ledge, which killed them from such a big fall. Spyro couldn't help but smile and chuckle at how easily Leon defeated those Apes and jumped up the formations before gliding across. Leon had moved to give his friend the room he needed and they continued their trek.
They had to cross a second chasm, but this one was more dangerous than the previous one, as the bottom was covered with vines covered in thorns. The two young dragons had simply jumped and glided across the chasm, while jumping from sturdy formations to get across. After they made it across, the two dragons had entered a clearing, but froze in horror as a loud and terrifying screech like roar had thundered out from the sky above. The two young dragons turned to look at each other and screamed as they fled into a nearby cave.
"What in the world was that?!" Spyro asked as he and Leon never heard such a sound like that one before!
"I have no idea Spyro, but I think it can't get us inside this cave." Leon stated as he was still scared out of his mind, as was Spyro!
"Where do you suppose this cave leads?" The lime green dragon asked, as had never been in this area or cave before.
"Let's find out, because there's no telling if...whatever that was is still out there." Spyro stated and Leon nodded, in agreement as they didn't want to risk going back the way they came.
Only did both Leon and Spyro know, what they would find in the cave was going to be more than they bargained for...as they only walked a few steps and they both could not believe what was standing before them in front of their eyes.