Chapter 3: Greetings New Portal Master Part 1

Disclaimer: I do not own the Skylanders franchise or Activision. I only and rightfully own the OC's used in this story.

IT'S GAME TIME! :D For this game you have to guess what element I am going to be in the story. Will it be Magic, Earth, Water, Fire, Tech, Undead, Air, or Life. Guess right now and read on to find out if you were correct.

As I walked outside I was surprised to find out that the Skylanders I saw earlier in the balloon were not outside anymore. I was thinking that they were all kidnapped by Kaos, but then I thought it would not likely happen because the Skylanders can't get captured in less than 3 minutes. I heard the sound of claws scraping against the stone floor of the dome behind me and I turned around to see Spyro walk up next to me. He had a smile on his face and I was guessing he was happy to be back at the citadel. I let him be that way for about a few minutes before I decided to ask him if he knew where the other Skylanders were.

"Hey Spyro?"

"Yeah." he said as he went back into a serious face. ( this face - :l )

"Do you by any chance know where the other Skylanders are?" I asked raising my eyebrow.

"Yeah, they're all in their dormitories waiting for you to go and meet them."

"Well should we go meet them then?"

"Not yet." said Spyro as he shook his head. "We have to talk with Master Eon first."

"Ok then. Do you know where he is?" I asked. "Yeah, he's in that castle over there." Spyro said pointing to directly behind me. I turned around to see the castle-like dome Spyro was referring to. The castle looked familiar to me but I couldn't remember where I've seen it from. I turned back around to look at Spyro. "Well, lead the way then." I said pointing my arms towards the castle. "With pleasure." said Spyro as he walked in front of me. I followed directly behind him as we walked towards the castle. As we walked towards I couldn't help myself but ask Spyro what the castle was for.

"Hey Spyro?" I asked tapping his shoulder. "Yeah?" He said looking at me. "What is this castle for?"

"Well this castle is where Master Eon lives and where he watches the Core of Light." It then came to me that this was the same castle in the first Skylanders video game. The castle looked very similar to Kaos's flying castle being made from stone bricks and having a pillar at the castle's corners. It had a porch right above me and I assumed that is where Master Eon watches the Core of Light from. We arrived at the castle and we walked inside. The castle on the inside looked magnificent. The floor was covered in red carpet and showed different symbols on the edge of the carpet. In the middle of the floor there was a button-like platform that looked like it was connected to eight torches hanging on the walls. It had pictures of Master Eon with some of the Skylanders on the wall to my right. To my left was a staircase which basically went up the walls like a square. To my front I saw three rooms evenly spaced along the wall. "So is Eon in one of those rooms?" I asked Spyro pointing towards the doors. "Hm? Oh no. Those are Flynn's, Cali's, and Hugo's rooms." said Spyro pointing at each door from left to right. "Right." Spyro then pointed upwards towards the second floor. "Master Eon is ALL the way up there." Spyro said twirling his talon. "Oh gosh. Doesn't it get tiring for you to climb up and down the stairs just to meet him?"

"Who says I climb the stairs?" Spyro then smiled grimly and flew up to the second floor. I stared at him for about thirty seconds until he stopped flying and landed on the second floor. "You coming?" Spyro snickered. "Haha very funny." I replied jokingly.

"What's so funny."

"That you just flew up there without taking me with you."

"Who said I was taking you?" said Spyro lifting an eyebrow.

"God dammit." I muttered to myself as I started climbing the stairs.

3 minutes later:

I flopped on the ground as I finally reached the top of the stairs. Spyro walked over to me as I laid there on the ground panting like a dog. "Ah, the advantages I get over you." Spyro jokingly said as he spread out his wings. "Yeah, good for you." I said softly for him to hear as I struggled to my feet. "I can't believe you didn't just carry me up there." I said rubbing the back of my head. "You need exercise anyways." said Spyro with a shrug. "Whatever."

The second floor wasn't that much different from the first floor. It still had the same colored carpet along with some more pictures of Master Eon with some Skylanders. The only difference was that there was only one room on this floor and that there a porch along with a rock near the entrance of the porch.

"Well anyways Taylor, Master Eon is just right through that door." said Spyro as he pointed to the one room. "Ok then." I walked towards the door and knocked on it. I waited a few moments before Master Eon opened the door.

He looked exactly as he did in the game before he changed into a spirit having a light tan skin color, a blue robe, a sash with all the Skylanders' elements on it, a Viking hat, and a wide, thick gold bracelet on his right arm. He had four fingers (one of which is the thumb) on each hand and had a golden ring on the middle finger of his left hand. He also held a staff on his right hand that had, what in my opinion, a crystal ball. He did in fact have a cartoonish-looking face having a white mustache and beard that didn't show his chin or the skin above his upper lip. He also had thick, bushy, white eyebrows, wrinkles under his eyes, a nose that looked like a small tunnel (No offense Master Eon), and medium-sized ears.

"Greetings Taylor." Master Eon said in a low voice. "Hello." I said back. "I'm glad you're finally here. Please, come in and have a seat." said Master Eon opening the door wider for me to enter. Me and Spyro both entered Master Eon's room for the first time. Master Eon's room looked like an office where somebody would work at more than a bedroom. It had a desk at the back of the room filled with papers, pencils, books, and other stuff. There were shelves on both walls next to the desk. The one on the right contained books as if they belonged to a library. The one on the left contained what humans would call 'School Supplies'.

"Please. Have a seat." Master Eon said gesturing me to two chairs in front of the desk. I turned around to see Spyro still standing outside the room. "Isn't Spyro going to come in also?" I asked. "No Portal Master, this will just be the two of us." Master Eon replied. "Ok." I said. Master Eon went back to close the door while sat down in one of the chairs. Master Eon then went behind the desk and sat down as well.

"So Taylor. How's Earth been?" Master Eon asked.

"Good."

"Ok then. Are you excited to be a Portal Master?"

"I guess so."

"Why is that?" Master Eon said leaning in towards me a tiny bit.

"I'm just afraid that I'm not going to be liked by everybody."

"Hmmmm." Master Eon said stroking his beard. "I expected you to say that."

"You did?" I surprisingly said.

"Indeed." He said nodding his head. "I still remember you meeting me for the first time. You were pretty nervous as I recall."

"Yeah."

"Why are you so nervous meeting new people?" He asked curiously.

"Because back on Earth I have trouble making friends. I think that they'll hate me for being to weird."

"I see." He got up out of his seat and went to the shelf to the left of him and grabbed a dictionary-sized book. He sat back down and opened the book and flipped a couple of pages until he put his finger on one. He scrolled down the page until he stopped near the bottom of the page.

"It says right here in your personality section that you can be funny at times when people will think you are weird." He said reading the page.

"Two things." I said holding up two fingers. One, that's exactly what I think, and two, I have my own book!" I exclaimed.

Master Eon chuckled at my comment. "Indeed you do Taylor. Indeed you do." Master Eon said putting the book back on the shelf. "In fact every single Portal Master has one." He added.

"I know that. Spyro already told me."

"He did?" He said looking at me. I nodded my head. "Ok then." He say back down at the desk.

"Now before you leave, I need to know what element you are."

"Alright."

Master Eon pulled a drawer from his desk and carefully took out a stone, flat portal that had the eight symbols of the elements.

"What is that?" I asked.

"It's a Portal of the Elements." He replied back.

"How does it work?"

"Well it's quite simple. You put your hand in the middle of the portal and one of these symbols will glow. He said pointing at the element symbols. "Just in case you don't know what the elements are, they are Magic, Earth, Water, Fire, Tech, Undead, Air, and Life. Did you already know that?"

"I did actually."

"Well good to know before hand." Master Eon said. "So now I want you to go ahead and put your hand in the middle of the portal." He instructed.

I started to put my hand in the middle but stopped. "Will this hurt? I don't want it to hurt." I thought worryingly. "Is to hurt?" I asked Master Eon.

"No Taylor, you'll feel nothing at all." He said with a smile.

( This is where the game begins. :D )

Now satisfied that it won't hurt, I placed my hand in the middle of the portal and saw all the eight elements glowed. Nothing happened for a while until I saw the Undead symbol fade away. Master Eon saw this as well and said "Well I guess Undead is out of the question." Guessing by that comment I figured when an element fades away, it means I'm not that element. Then I saw the Earth, Fire, and Air symbol fade away. I started to think about why these elements were left. I was left with Magic, Water, Tech, and Life. I wasn't surprised that Tech was still there since I play electronics at home eight hours a day. For Water I assumed it was because I liked to swim. For Magic I couldn't tell because I haven't been interested in magic at all. Finally, for Life I guess it was because I lived nature and hiking.

The next element that faded away was Water and I assumed again that it was because I didn't do the swim team anymore and that I have barely been swimming this summer back on Earth. Then I saw the Life element fade away. I wasn't surprised about this because I barely wanted to go hiking and that I really wasn't interested in nature. I was down to Magic and Tech. I was really surprised that Magic was still there because I still had no clue why I was into magic. For Tech I still wasn't surprised because of my eight hours of electronics per day. Then I saw one last element symbol fade away. It was...