CHAPTER THE EIGHTH: Earth


Lucy despised science. Especially homework. Science homework was the worst. She had a terrible teacher, in a terrible school with a terrible idea that everyone should get homework every lesson. Meaning that every Monday, Tuesday and Friday she had no free time, as Lucy had to work on it all night.
'Ugh...' she thought. 'Who cares about a frog's life cycle? I just wanna play on Dawn of the dragon... I only got it yesterday...'
Now would be a good time to mention that nobody on Earth knows anything about skylanders, as the game does not yet exist. Lucy was 12 years old. She lived in London, England. She hated school.

Then it is mating season and the frogs reproduce. Then the cycle starts again. Done! She turned on her Playstation 2 and picked up the controller. Lucy checked the clock. 9:00. She had half an hour. Oh well, she could speedrun the first spyro in 3 hours. Lucy was sure she could do two levels.

9:25. C'mon! She could kill the damn destroyer! To her surprise, she hadn't even done level one yet... Cynder let out a burst of wind on the destroyers hand. Win! Cynder flew up on to the save point. Lucy turned off the playstation and was about to turn off the lamp. But she saw something out the window. Spyro's reflection. Except the TV was off. And the window was open. Her mum worked late, so Lucy put her dressing gown on to investigate.
"He-hello?" Lucy called.
"Huh, what, who's there?" a voice called back.
"Who are you? Come out. I won't hurt you."
A water dragon walked out of the bushes. Not spyro. But a dragon at least.

"What's your name?" Lucy asked.
"I'm Zap. Hi, who are you?" Zap replied.
"I'm Lucy. Where did you come from?"
"Skylands!"
Lucy couldn't help but giggle.
"Pfft. I must be dreaming..."
Zap shocked her with lightning. She shouted in pain.

"What was that for?"
"To prove it's not a dream. Look, I need your help."
How very predictable. A dragon comes from another land, they aren't exactly going to ask for a sandwich.
"My friends have been scattered on your planet. I need to get them back. We need to find some way to get back to Skylands."
Lucy laughed.
"What's so funny?" Zap asked.
"Ahh, never mind. Where do we start then?"
"Well, i think my friend landed next door..."
"What, number 21?"
"Yes-"
"We need to get him out of there. NOW."

Lucy knew the man at number 21. We was a scientist of Biology. One day when Lucy was walking back from school, she was telling her friend Gus how much she hated the science homework. The scientist heard, and offered to help.
"You see this little Ladybug here. It's so small, but so complex!"
He took a knife out of his pocket and cut the thing in half. Lucy screamed. If one of Zap's friends were next door, then Lucy knew that if the scientist found it, then he or she would meet a horrible, scientific death.