Ok, let's finish taking this dam down.
I'm going to introduce three things in this chapter that our two gamers haven't seen or experienced from this game so far. You could probably guess what they are if you've read closely enough...can you?
Spyro and Cynder, like their game counterparts, had realized that they'd need to open the main floodgate in order to proceed on.
To begin, they both led their characters towards the middle of the dam, between the two levels they had just opened.
"Ok, as I can only guess," Sparx said. "There's going to be some resistance coming..."
"Well, what do you think?" Spyro asked.
"Yeah, probably."
"Yippie for us...," Cynder said.
Working together, the game dragons went inside and turned a wheel that would allow them to move up to the next level of the dam. When they reached it, they found a save point.
"Alright, let's get a quick save," Spyro suggested. They did so and moved forward along a mud wall towards the other side.
Unfortunately, like Sparx had predicted, they ran into some resistance. Big resistance...
An extremely large orc had emerged from the earth, carrying a rather large club in his hands. It said, "Do not resist. Your deaths will be swift..."
With that, the orc closed off the path ahead and summoned more enemies.
"Great...they got bigger...," Spyro said.
"Why do they always get bigger?" Cynder asked.
"Ok, bring it on!"
The fight wasn't any easier. The large orc was stronger than he looked. Spyro and Cynder were careful not to get hit by his club, which did heavy damage.
"Spyro, get the weaker ones first!" Cynder suggested.
"Ok."
The two took care of them as quickly as they could, using some of their magic in the process. The orc was all to themselves...
"Unload on that thing!" Sparx yelled.
"Take this!" Cynder yelled.
"C'mon! Bring it!" Spyro added.
They unloaded their best game attacks on it, causing damaged slowly and steadily. The two also took the time to refill their magic with green crystals when necessary.
Unfortunately, each were also hit a couple of times along the way, but they used the red gems around them to heal up.
Like always, eventually the behemoth went down. The two moved on triumphantly with the raised gate.
"Nothing to it," Spyro said.
"Again, are you guys ever going to let me play?" Sparx asked.
Unfortunately, they couldn't answer him. More enemies came after them.
"No rest for the weary," Cynder said. "I still don't remember this many enemies at that dam!"
"Still," Spyro said.
After a few more hard pressed minutes of battling, the two looked to see where they had to go next.
"I think we go here," Spyro said. His character climbed up a vine wall on the far side and found yet another orb they needed to use.
"What else?" Cynder asked. "Orbs, orbs, and more orbs..."
"I got it," Spyro said. His character grabbed it and they went to the vine wall on the other side of the area they were in. After a climb, they went to the left and all the way up the wall to a new arena.
Unfortunately, once the two got up there, a new enemy was waiting for them. He was wearing a green helmet and had a red spear in his hand.
"Let's do our thing!" Spyro said. They began to attack this enemy, but for some reason none of their physical attacks did anything.
"What the?" Cynder asked.
"What is this thing?"
The two then started to try to use their elemental attacks, but for some reason, they could still do no damage.
"Uh-oh," Cynder said. Her character was taking a beating.
"What do we do?" Spyro asked. No matter what they tried, their efforts were futile.
"Hang on." Cynder tried to hurry over and get some red gems, but the enemy came around and attacked her...fatally. (A.N. I flipped a coin when deciding this...)
Spyro and Cynder could only watch as her character died and the screen went blank.
"Oh no...," Cynder put her head down. "I died..."
"It's ok, Cynder," Spyro said. "Don't worry about it." He admittingly didn't do any better and was on the verge of death as well.
"I was wondering when one of you would bite the dust...," Sparx said.
"Sparx, shut up!" Spyro said. He could tell Cynder was upset. "It's only a game, Cynder. That's why we could save it before."
"Yeah...I guess...," she said. "It's just...that could have easily happened in real life you know."
Spyro froze. "You're right...I never realized that."
"But you're right, Spyro. At least this is a game..." She put up a weak smile.
"Ok." They reloaded the screen to just before they faced that enemy again.
"How do we kill that thing?" Cynder asked.
"Well, it's helmet was green...," Spyro said. "Maybe that means something..."
Cynder opened her eyes wide. "I think I get what you're saying. I'll go with poison..."
"And I'll attack with earth!"
The two decided to put their theory to the test. They hurried up to face the enemy once again.
It turned out that they were both right on the money. Cynder's poison seemed to be the only thing that could harm the enemy.
"NOW...it's on!" Cynder yelled. "Payback time."
Spyro wanted his character to help out as well. He was so concentrated on the fighting, that he accidently pressed to of the buttons on the controller.
All of a sudden, both Spyro and Cynder's characters began to glow with a purple shade. Their bodies raised in the air and both landed on the ground.
The real ones looked at each other with wide eyes. Both put on a huge grin.
"Convexity power..." Spyro and Cynder both said. Without thinking, both pointed their characters straight at the enemy and they each shot a purple laser blast. The damage done was incredible. Within seconds, the enemy was defeated. Unfortunately, the convexity power was only temporary.
"Oh...I love this game," Cynder said.
"I forgot about our convexity power," Spyro said. "Thank the Ancestors they put that in this game!"
"That was sweet you guys," Sparx said. "Only the real versions were cooler."
"How did you do that, Spyro?" Cynder asked.
"Like this." He showed her the two buttons on the controller.
"That sure will come in handy later," Cynder stated.
"Yes...it will," Spyro agreed.
The two moved on, having an orb with Spyro's character. They moved along the vine walls to the right and moved up, occasionally having to 'wall run' along the side. Eventually, they made it all the way to the top of the dam. Spyro made his character drop the orb, but it only released half the device that would destroy the dam.
Spyro and Cynder couldn't believe themselves.
"We actually forgot one," Spyro said.
"Again...," Cynder added. They both sighed. "Let's go get it..."
So, after backtracking, Cynder's character grabbed another orb. They both worked their way to the top once more, releasing the the dam's lever. Unfortuately, some enemies showed up to try and halt their plans.
"Right, let's finish the job!" Spyro said. He and Cynder's characters fought hard to take them down.
Little did they know, the three Guardians had entered the room. They decided to watch Spyro and Cynder play to see what they were dealing with, and they couldn't stop staring at the TV doing so.
Spyro used electricity, while Cynder used fear to finish off the game enemies.
"What do you say we finish this?" Spyro asked.
"Gladly," Cynder positioned her character on the lever. Spyro pulled it. Together, all the water in the dam was released by the two dragons. They had succeeded.
"How fascinating!" Volteer couldn't resist but saying.
Spyro and Cynder gasped, dropping their controllers in fright.
"You could've knocked," Sparx said.
"Sorry about that Sparx," Cyril said.
"We wanted to see what exactly we're dealing with," Terrador explained.
"So...what did you guys decide?" Spyro asked.
No! The fun can't end yet! Will it...? I don't think so....
So I had Cynder's character die, both of them fight an elite enemy, and use convexity if you haven't guessed it by now.
By the way, I'm sorry to do this here, but if you can, check out my newest Spyro fic Key to the Heart. Please and thank you!
Peace out!
Biz