Spyro's Legacy I: One Life to Live
Chapter 11
Poison
Sarah continued to fly towards the eastern horizon. The sun was no longer in her eyes as the day set in.
"When you get to this village there will be a secluded home towards the western outskirts. It will be empty and you will claim it as your own."
"All right" Sarah stammered.
"There you will give birth to a dragon. Now you are not to take this egg to the dragon temple. You have to raise your hatchling in your house and keep him away from all of the outside world. Then we might think about letting you free."
Sarah became visably giddy.
"However!" It warned "If you or your hatchling make your way back to the temple before his thirteenth birthday. You take his egg to the temple or what ever we will possess you once more."
Sarah began to figure that in fifteen or so years that she would be free. In terms of a dragon's life that wasn't that long. However Spyro and company had not got to the piece of telling her that eggs only hatch on one night a century. This way all dragon's are all the same age.
"We are going to get you lost now." the voices said and with that Sarah's vision and consciousness went away.
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Spyro set Terrador down on a bed in the temple. "Will you be all right?"
"In this life or the next." he spat out through his pains. "I don't think I will... make it... through this one"
Spyro nodded to the other guardians. They came to the bed along with Cynder.
"You know I don't like these good bye things."
"You don't really have to say anything I guess." Cynder offered.
"Are... you crazy?"
Cynder let out a subdued chuckle. "I guess"
"Good luck with everything guys, The path set, before you... is a, tough one you know."
"Don't we know" Nate replied, his face scabbing over a bit by now.
"Yes... Our ancesters had long looked, towards you Spyro and said that your.... battles with Malefor... would be the... last big threat to our kind..."
Spyro looked towards Cynder at the mention but neither could smile at the moment.
Terrador's face became flush with the pain. "But they.... had missed your second... conflict entirerly, As age takes us all slowly.... This new threat bears down. I may only wish you luck with that as... I pass away into the... next life...."
"Thanks for everything." Spyro said.
"Thanks." Cynder added.
"Yeah, thank you" Nate added.
"Thank you" Adar dropped in.
"It.. has been.... my plesure." Terrador spat out. The final color from his face faded as his eyes closed one last time.
It would be written that he had lived his life in his best effort to help out dragon kind as a whole. Through combat he protected thousands. He taught many earth dragons the art of their element. After such a long journy he had finaly found his resting place. That is duty had been forfilled on the battle field one last time before he laid to rest. That he had lived life to the fullest and that his bigest legacy would be the training that he had given to Spyro, the Purple Dragon of Destiny.
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50 Years Later
Sarah looked down at he egg. It had been rolling around for about an hour on the soft straw covered nursery floor. Finnaly a bitty claw broke through the hard shell of the egg. Then another and another.
Then a nose poked through the top. It quickly dissapeared.
Sarah chuckeled. "No the voices won't ever throw you around like they did me, Alnor."
The egg suddenly split in two. Leaving a healthy wet dragon in it's place.
Sarah walked up to the hatchling and licked it dry. He was beautiful, but the only thing that seamed to enter her mind was "Why is he purple?"
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End of: Spyro's Legacy I: One Life to Live
Spyro's Legacy II: Resurection and Salvation will start after I get back from vacation here in the next few weeks. I have the unedited version out right now but it needs some pretty good editing in places I think... I don't sugjest reading that version.... but if you want to I won't stop you :)
Hope you enjoyed! :)