A/N: I'm sorry. I can't express how sorry I am nor how busy I've been. Hopefully all of you can forgive me for this and future mistakes. Welcome to the final elemental chapter. After this, the real story will begin. Also, would anyone be interested in a QnA with the characters after a few chapters? This is the Light/Dark chapter. Enjoy.
If someone were to ask Angel and Damien if they believed in God, they would hide a smirk and come up with a believable answer. In reality, the twins knew full well that they can never reveal their origins to anyone as they have seen humanity destroy what they can't understand. They had seen the first computer, the Holocaust, WWI, the Roman Empire, the Greeks first discovering science; they had seen humanity at its best and worst as they have been around for centuries. Angel was a celestial being of Light while her twin brother, Damien, was a celestial being of Dark.
Humanity had come up with many names to refer to Angel and Damien, the most prominent being angel and demon. They originally hailed from Skylands, a magical world that lived in relative harmony until Kaos destroyed the Core of Light. Angel and Damien remember being sent to Skylands after Eon sent the elemental crystals to Earth to hopefully gain new Portal Masters. Luckily, the two were able to find their crystals easily and remained there until humanity arrived on Earth, albeit wary as the twins were unsure how these new creatures would react to them. After witnessing the human capacity for war, Angel and Damien decided to keep an eye out for a shift in the other crystals locations and remain as far away from humans as possible.
Damien was still sleeping when his sister awoke him from his dreamless sleep, speaking a bit too quickly for her brother to understand. Angel tugged on his arm again, urging him to get up as all of the crystals had moved and they needed to see who found the powerful gems. Damien groaned and sat up, swinging his legs over the side of the bed before yawning and stretching his arms above his head. Angel was already in the main room of the house, waiting for her brother to finish getting ready for the big trip ahead of them. They would probably not be coming back to the small house as they had agreed that as soon as the other crystals started moving, the two of them would find the one responsible and see whether they would be worthy of being called Portal Master.
Angel was staring at the screen of their shared laptop, trying to figure out the exact locations of the crystals when her brother stepped into the room and decided to make some coffee. Once it was brewed, Damien filled up two mugs and slid one over to Angel, who still hadn't taken her eyes off the screen in front of her. Damien leaned against the counter and slowly sipped his coffee for about 10 minutes before he was finally curious enough to look at the laptop screen as well. It seemed that the crystals were pretty spaced out across the entire globe with the majority being in the Northern Hemisphere.
"Let's see. It seems the crystals are in different locations across the world. One in California, one in Nebraska, one in Hawaii, one in New York, one in the Amazon, one in Germany, one in the Himalayas, and one in Japan. Good thing they aren't in different dimensions." Angel just looked at her brother after his little joke before turning back to the laptop and closing it, deciding to take it with them on their trip. Placing the computer in her messenger bag, Angel followed Damien outside to the front of the house before they both unleashed their wings and shot into the sky. Angel decided it would be better to use some sort of cloaking spell or something so as to not draw attention to themselves. In a matter of moments, the twins had located the Water crystal and were watching the girl who found it with a critical gaze before turning to each other and nodding, signifying this one was good. It didn't take long to reach the Air crystal in Nebraska and locate the crystal's target, whom they both agreed was good.
The Fire crystal in Hawaii took a little bit longer to find, but once they did, they discovered that someone on vacation had found it and was taking it with them to Arizona. The twins followed the plane to Arizona and located the crystal quickly before agreeing the crystal chose wisely. It took a bit to get to New York with rough weather making it nearly impossible to fly without losing a few feathers. Once there, the twins located the crystal and watched as a human and a spirit left the graveyard it was in together. Damien shrugged when Angel turned to him before they both took off again and headed towards the Amazon. The Life crystal was nowhere in sight until Damien suggested they go underground, revealing an Aztec temple that a human girl was climbing the stairs to.
Angel nodded at Damien and pointed towards the hole they swooped in from, indicating it was time to go. On their way to Germany, they stopped at Italy for some food before continuing their trek. "If there's one good thing to be said about humans, it'd probably be the amount of foods they've come up with." Angel nodded in agreement as she continued eating her Carbonara. Soon after, the twins were back to flying high above multiple countries before touching down in a field outside of a junkyard in Germany. Peering through the fence, Damien caught sight of a girl holding the Tech crystal while also tugging a wagon filled with scrap parts. Damien nodded to Angel and they took off towards the Himalayan Mountains.
Once they reached the cave containing the Earth crystal, they watched as a girl investigated the crystal before a small landside blocked the entrance. Damien and Angel looked on as the boulders moved away from the entrance before being replaced by more boulders. The twins looked at each other and nodded, satisfied that the girl seemed to have figured out how the crystal worked. They moved on and eventually came to an orphanage that held two surprises. The first surprise came in the form of a child that held the crystal, the twins immediately recognizing the kid as someone originally hailing from Skylands. The second came in the form of how the kid was treated, or mis-treated as the case may be.
Nodding to each other, the twins flew back to their house and opened their computer and watched as, one-by-one, the different colored dots slowly disappeared from the screen. This indicated to them that the crystals, and the ones that found them, have left Earth entirely and traveled to Skylands. "Finally", the twins said in unison and stepped outside with their computer in its bag, creating a Portal out of thin air and stepped through into their homeland. The twins stood in front of the Academy and noticed the Skylanders were battle ready.
After learning about the potential invasion by the trolls and Kaos, the twins were ready as well with their weapons in hand. Damien held two guns with his Dark crystal embedded in the handles while Angel had a bow with arrows made of pure energy in hand. As the trolls marched towards the Academy, the twins learned that the Superchargers had been sent off to get the new Portal Masters. The trolls stopped a few hundred yards away, waiting for the command to attack and the Skylanders stood ready for the battle.
A/N: So, here we are. The Portal Masters have been introduced and are getting thrown into a battle without much experience. Is there anything I should go back and fix? This has plagued me and been the reason I haven't uploaded. Is it good enough? Let me know. Is the pacing okay? Is everything okay so far? If I should change anything, let me know. Also, I realize it seems the story is full of clichés and it is, and the characters don't seem to have any emotional depth, but that's because the story is still early.
Think of the characters like this. They get transported to a world they think is just like a video game with video game rules: no permanent death, wars that have no consequence, and nothing can be seriously injured. They'll find out a little later on that that isn't the case. This is their new reality, and they will learn that the rules of reality still exist and are very present in this new and exciting world. Hope that gives some sort of insight to the plot.
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