New Frontier- a 'Legend Of Spyro' fic
Disc.: I do not own this game series, if I did then Cynder and Spyro would already have kids and Spyro would be a Guardian in place of Ignitus so back off with your burning hatred!
A/N: So, I'm glad that I finally have a direction to take this fic in regards to the other game that this crosses over with. Now I can finally get somewhere with the rest of it! For those who read the previous chapter, I thought I'd throw in some fun between Lion-O and Dante, and this one will pick up with Luna finding out that Cadence has disappeared to who knows where…here ya go, everypony!
Ch.7- She's WHERE!?
Luna stared at her family, noticing that one was missing and that the other three had rather odd reactions to her beforehand question. She'd gotten home just as her mate had asked her boys how they were going to tell her something and she'd asked what they were referring to, and their dispositions were rather disturbing. Noctis was looking at her with an expression that denoted nervousness and guilt, while her sons were looking anywhere but at her. So, on that note, Luna asked her question again…only this time, she asked it a bit more forcefully, hoping that would get some answers out of her stunned family.
"Alright, since it seemed no one heard me I'll ask again…boys, honey, where is Cadence?!"
This tone of voice had her sons looking at her, Eibahn trying not to cry and Alistair trying to think of a way to explain things without making her too angry.
"Well?"
Alistair gulped nervously, his copper-amber eyes locking with his mother's crystal blue ones.
"Um, mother, you may not like this but…"
"But?"
"I…had a vision."
"Really? You had a vision?!"
"Yeah."
"And what did you see?"
"Well…Dad was talking to Boltaro about something that involved you and him, me and Eibahn played hide and seek while Cadence snuck away to do something else, she picked up a gem and then she…disappeared."
Luna took all this in, surely her son was joking when he said that his little sister had vanished.
"Hold on…so you're telling me that Cadence is GONE!?" Luna said angrily, she hadn't been this livid since her mission to Bellevue when Mundus had gotten Lion-O sick with the Hell Gate.
All three male dragons shrunk back in fear of the Queen's rage, Alistair and Eibahn ready to shit themselves right there from her yelling at them.
"Noctis, how could you let them out of your sight?! What was so important that you had to talk to Boltaro instead of watching our children!?"
"Hey, he'd come by to congratulate us on our new family…the kids are the ones who slipped away when I was talking to him!"
"But that's because we wanted to play, so we thought the forest nearby would be perfect to do that."
"Yeah, and besides, Cadence is the one who got herself into this mess by sneaking away from us."
Luna looked at her husband and two children, her anger only increasing when they tried explaining themselves.
"Save your excuses boys, because as far as I'm concerned, you're all responsible for this mess! Now take me to where she disappeared, RIGHT NOW!"
Luna shouted as they led the way to where Cadence had vanished…all because of her curiosity.
(In another time and dimension lightyears away from Avalar)
The sky overhead was covered with pitch black clouds, lightning and thunder streaking and booming every few minutes. The buildings around the whole of the land were destroyed and crumbling, boiling hot lava covering the ground so that not even a glimpse of anything beneath it remained. Silver was gliding across the sky, his eyes taking in the ruined landscape sadly as he kept flying over the lava.
He looked at everything below and around him, his thoughts taking on a rather depressing turn.
'This world was devastated before I was born, it's little more than a harsh and bleak place where we live in eternal darkness. Life itself in this place is a struggle to survive, and the people here live without hope. So, how did this happen? No one will answer me directly, but they always point to the flames.'
Silver halted his flight as a pillar of fire rose up in front of him, stopping his advance. Using his psychic power, he sent out a wave of energy to knock the pillar away from him and sent it back into the magma beneath him before continuing his flight as well as his thoughts.
'These flames…they burn away at my world, destroying everything in their path without hesitation and remorse. They come from an eternal life form that we cannot truly defeat, they're the Flames of Disaster, known as Iblis.'
Silver's eyes then took on a hateful glimmer, the magma below making them light up with a red-amber glow as he heard an all too familiar voice call out to him.
"Silver!"
Silver let his gaze fall towards the one who'd called out to him, his eyes taking on a glint of worry and relief at seeing his childhood friend standing on one of the buildings nearest him beneath his body.
"Blaze, what's wrong?"
Blaze looked at Silver as her own eyes took on an expression of urgency.
"He's appeared again!"
Silver felt the power surge that he'd become all too familiar with, taking off in a flash of soft green light while Blaze followed after him by using the stable buildings to catch up to her best friend.
After roughly an hour of flying, jumping, and dodging, the two friends were standing in front of a massive behemoth towering over them and the building they stood on. It was roughly 30 feet tall and made of pure lava and brimstone, the heat radiating off of its' body enough to send any normal person running away before they were scorched by the sensation.
Instead, Silver and Blaze were standing firm before the beast, their eyes filled with nothing but hatred for the creature that had ravaged their world.
"Come on, you monster!" Silver shouted at the beast, its jaws letting out an intimidating roar.
As they attacked the beast, it kept trying to grab them or swipe them away with its' massive limbs and fiery blasts, but they were too quick for it to catch them. After roughly an hour of fighting with it, the behemoth retreated back into the lava below. But Blaze and Silver knew that this fight was far from being finished.
"Looks like we've stopped it for now."
"But it'll just rise up from its' ashes again, perhaps even more powerful than before."
Silver said depressedly as he punched a stone wall next to him.
"What's the point of all this? It will never end!"
"Calm down, Silver."
The hedgehog sighed, he knew that Blaze had a point but lately it all seemed to be for nothing and that their efforts were being wasted on avoiding the inevitable.
"Then tell me what we should do. How can we completely destroy Iblis?"
Both of them were silent, neither saying a word until a voice from a nearby presence caught their attention.
"By knowing the truth, of course."
They both looked up to see who it was that had spoken to them only to catch eyes with a black hedgehog, he was pure black with silver-gray streaks in his hair and a tuft of white on his chest as he continued to talk to them from his pedestal on high.
"Just as a flower grows from a seed or a chicken hatches from an egg, everything has an origin. You must find the being responsible for this future of yours and eliminate them."
Silver's eyes widened slightly, could it really be that easy to just end it all and fix what was wrong with everything in their world?
"Is that really the answer to our problem? Tell me, do you know who it is that's caused all this?"
The hedgehog stared at them, he seemed to have the answer for everything as he spoke to them again.
"Yes, I do. Follow me if you wish to learn the identity of the one responsible for this horribly ruined world of yours." The hedgehog said before taking off. Silver was ecstatic at finally being able to find the one who'd caused all this to happen to their world. Blaze, however, was somewhat reluctant to trust this unknown hedgehog so readily and voiced her concerns to Silver.
"Silver, I don't know about all this…what if he could be lying, or drawing us into a trap by saying what we wanna hear most?"
"Don't worry Blaze, I'm not gonna trust him fully yet…only enough to get information out of him, now let's go before we lose him!"
Blaze nodded, glad that her friend had the good sense not to rush into relying on a stranger to help them solve all of their problems.
After an hour of chasing after him, the two were standing in a closed off room with the mystery hedgehog. He had a large computer monitor set up before them, the screen blank for the time being as Silver and Blaze took in the layout of the room.
"To fix this present timeline, you will need to change the past."
Silver looked at the informant accusingly, was he seriously screwing with them right now?
"But that's impossible!"
"With my help, you can…because I have the power to travel through time."
"No way!"
The black hedgehog just kept explaining to them all that their little time travel mission would entail.
"If you want to change the past, you must eliminate the individual who awakened Iblis…The Iblis Trigger."
Silver stood there contemplating all that they'd just been told, if what this hedgehog was saying is true, then by taking this 'Iblis Trigger' out of the picture…their world could actually be saved!
"If I eliminate that guy, will our world be saved?"
"The Day of Disaster…here are the records of that horrid event, this was the day that Iblis was freed and his flames were released into the world."
The screen then lit up and showed pictures of a beautiful town, and then came the photos of the fires that scorched that world to nothing but ashes and ruin.
"And you have this person to blame for that coming to pass."
The black hedgehog said as he gave Silver a purple Chaos Emerald, the image reflected brightly in the depths of the Emerald. Silver gasped at who he saw, it was another hedgehog like him and the mysterious black hedgehog in the room with them only this one was blue with sparkling green eyes. An evil smirk was on his face as the flames surrounded him, it was clear that he was the one who'd made this horrible future their future.
"I see him! So, that blue hedgehog's the Iblis Trigger?"
Blaze stood there in thought, something about what Silver just said struck something in her…as though it had sparked some small shred of familiarity deep within her mind.
"Blue hedgehog…"
Silver then returned the Chaos Emerald to its' owner, the time had come for action to be taken.
"I'll send us back in time to the point when the Iblis trigger was still alive." The black hedgehog said as he materialized a small atom of black and purple energy. It then surrounded everyone in the room and the occupants disappeared, leaving no trace of there ever being anyone there.
(4 hours later)
The energy dispersed and vanished, leaving Silver standing in the middle of a lush, green forest. He looked all around at the forest, the green contrasting starkly from his own ruined hometown. Silver wasn't used to seeing such a beautiful scene, but he would gladly take this over the magma and destroyed buildings any day of the week.
"Where am I?"
Silver was so busy taking in all of the beauty of the forest that it only hit him after a few minutes that he was alone.
"Blaze? Blaze!" Silver tried calling out for his friend, but there was no response.
"I guess we all got separated. This is so unbelievable, this forest being here instead of the magma that I grew up being surrounded by…but now, I must fight for the future! I'm coming for you Iblis Trigger!" Silver said before taking off, never even noticing the dark blue glow that had blanketed where he was standing only minutes prior or even the one that had stepped out of the energy field before it too disappeared.
(With Blaze)
Blaze was walking around where she'd landed, the only things there besides her are a few wooden houses and the ocean. It shocked her at first, because all that she was used to seeing from the time she was a kitten was the magma and destroyed buildings, but seeing the actual ocean was a very welcoming sight for her. She would happily take this over her old life any time.
"So, this is the past…I hope Silver's ok, he's pretty insecure when he's alone…but, I suppose that's partly to do with his mother. The Iblis Trigger, blue hedgehog, what could all this mean?"
Blaze decided not to ponder too much longer on what the blue hedgehog had to do with the Iblis Trigger and walked away from the houses, hoping that she could find some answers to all the questions swimming around in her head like the gentle breezes caressing her face.
T.B.C.- Wow, lots went down just now eh? Anyway, if anyone can guess the identity of Silver's parents then I'll reward you with something special…so, you know the drill- read and review please!
