Ch. 14: Convexity
Spyro and Cynder flew over the ocean for hours. The sun slowly made its descent into the horizon until it was night, but Spyro and Cynder continued to fly over the ocean. The view of Stone Hill and the Forgotten Realms vanished a long time ago, and the moonlight was the only light that they had. The moons were reflected off the ocean waves, which were very small where Spyro and Cynder were flying. Everything was quite peaceful, although Spyro and Cynder were getting very tired, since they were losing hours of sleep. But they both continued to glide with the wind, wings completely spread out, using very little energy. Cynder was starting to get very sleepy.
"Don't fall asleep Cynder. I'm sure that we can make it there in a day or two" said Spyro.
"What was I thinking? We should've left in the morning right after we woke up. Now I'm going to have to pull an all-nighter or two" said Cynder. She yawned and was starting to have some difficulty keeping her eyes open. She looked down at the calm ocean, looking at the moonlight. She started to fall a little in altitude.
"Cynder! Don't fall asleep!" yelled Spyro. Cynder shook herself, becoming more alert again.
"How big is this ocean?" asked Cynder.
"I don't know. I don't think anyone knows" said Spyro. He started to have second thoughts about this trip. 'Maybe we aren't going to make it. Why didn't we leave in the morning? What was I thinking?' Thoughts were spiraling through Spyro's mind. 'Maybe we can take a little rest in the ocean. Yeah. Go for a swim. We can make it. As long as it doesn't take a few days.'
Spyro yawned and looked at the large moon. It was up high in the sky. He also looked at the second moon which was much further away. It also had a different color to it, the first being somewhat dark bluish and the smaller moon being slightly red. The larger moon was much easier to see in the reflection on the ocean. Despite how sleepy Spyro and Cynder were starting to get, they continued their journey, attempting to fly as straight as possible.
Several hours went by, some more hours and several more after that. Perhaps it was days that were going by; Neither Spyro or Cynder knew the answer. As time went on, Spyro and Cynder continued to get weaker and sleepier. Cynder kept on gliding but never kept the same altitude or went in a straight line. Spyro tried to focus as much as he could, but could never manage to keep his eyes open for very long. Yet both of the dragons kept on flying. Spyro looked up in the sky with his eyes closed and everything that he saw appeared a bright orange and yellow. He didn't know it, but he was looking directly at the sun. He looked straight and managed to keep his eyes open for awhile. All he could see was blue, a light blue in the top half of his vision and a dark blue in the bottom half. Spyro's stomach rumbled without him knowing about it. The armor on his head was starting to get warm from being under the sun for so long.
"Why don't we rest a little in the water, Spyro? Just for a little bit?" asked Cynder. She was slowly starting to drop closer to the waves of the ocean. Spyro heard her and thought about it for a few seconds.
"I think we should stop for awhile and rest in the water" said Spyro. Both dragons started to drop until they both landed nearby in the ocean. Spyro and Cynder stayed there, floating in the ocean like a couple of bobbers in a lake. Spyro dipped his head under the water to wake himself up, but managed to get some water up his nose. He coughed and hacked a lot, the extremely salty water being quite painful going up his nose. He was awake now, even though he desperately wanted to go to sleep. Cynder had already started to doze off.
"Cynder. Cynder. Wake up" said Spyro. Cynder had trouble keeping her eyes open. Spyro splashed some water on her face. She immediately reacted by trying to wipe off her face. "Are you awake now?" asked Spyro.
"Yes. Geesh" said Cynder.
"We can't stay here for very long or else we're going to just fall asleep in the ocean, and who knows what will happen then" said Spyro.
"I guess you're right. How long have we been flying?" asked Cynder. Spyro thought for a few moments. The sun was out right now, but how many times had he seen it out? 2? 3?
"I think it's been 3 days now" said Spyro. Spyro's stomach rumbled again, and this time he noticed it. "Why can't there be deer in the ocean?" Spyro was almost grieving over how there wasn't any land animals in the ocean. Cynder started to think a bit.
"Look at us. The legendary purple dragon and a dragoness who's been exposed to the darkness, just resting out here in the ocean. Why are we having so much trouble with this? We defeated Malefor, the Dark Master. No one else can say that they've done that. But other dragons have crossed this ocean. We should be able to cross this ocean. We can cross this ocean. I'm sure that we're getting close to the Dragon Realms by now" said Cynder. This little pep talk got Spyro going.
"Yeah. If others have done it before then we can do it. Besides, we've already flown for 3 days, we're probably really close to the shore now" said Spyro. "Come on, Cynder, let's g-"
A loud clap of thunder shook the air around them. Lightning started to strike in the sky, even though there were no clouds anywhere in the sky.
"What's going on?" asked Spyro.
"I don't know, but I don't want to stick around to find out" said Cynder.
"Let's go" said Spyro. Both Spyro and Cynder kicked the water until their wings were in the air and started to fly again. The air around them started to move. The sunlight suddenly was blocked, making everything darker. Cynder noticed that Spyro's bracelet was glowing, but didn't pay attention to it for very long.
"Uh…Spyro. Do you know what that is?" asked Cynder. Cynder was looking up at the sky. "Please tell me I'm hallucinating this"
"Uhh…You're not. But I wish you were" said Spyro. Spyro looked up at the sky to see a swirling gate below some extremely dark clouds. Both Spyro and Cynder had seen this bright multicolored gate before, and they both knew where it went. "How can that be?" asked Spyro.
The air around and below the gate started to rotate violently, like it was being sucked into a black hole.
"There's no way I'm going back to convexity" said Cynder. The gate started to get bigger. It started to cover the clouds above it, but lightning continued to strike everywhere. Spyro and Cynder became confused.
"Cynder, does the gate to convexity expand like that" asked Spyro.
"I…don't think so" said Cynder. The gate continued to expand and its colors, which consisted of red, blue, green, and white, started to spin faster and faster until it was eventually all a blur. But the colors continued to spin faster and faster, Spyro and Cynder's eyes just couldn't see it.
"This is bad. Very bad" said Spyro. As if things couldn't get worse for the 2 dragons, the gate started to expel all the air around it, with such a force that the water below the gate was pushed away, creating a massive tidal wave around the gate which continued to grow in height and width. Spyro and Cynder were shot outwards away from the gate, away from the danger of the incoming tidal wave. Spyro and Cynder were spinning in the air while they were pushed away from the gate. Eventually they started to slow down and Spyro and Cynder were able to keep themselves from being pushed any further.
"I think I'm going to be sick" said Spyro. He felt a bit of nausea from all the spinning in the air, despite the fact that there wasn't any food in his stomach. Suddenly the colors of the gate stopped spinning, revealing the 4 large bands of colors. The gate itself however kept expelling air.
Suddenly a loud bang that sounded similar to thunder and an explosion came out of the vertex and rippled throughout the air and water. When Spyro and Cynder heard it, blood started to drip in their ears and all they could hear was an extremely loud ringing sound. They could not hear anything else but that. But they were fortunate, for an extremely loud high pitched sound was emanating from the gate.
Spyro and Cynder waited for a few moments, with the extremely loud ringing continuing. When they could hear again, they heard a brief instance of the high pitched noise, which suddenly got lower and then became silent. A large bright laser of purple and white shot out from the gate. It started to boil the water that it came into contact with, creating a large amount of steam so Spyro and Cynder could not see through it.
What Spyro and Cynder did not see was a very large and dark figure coming out of the gate through the laser. The dark figure slowly descended until it was about halfway from the gate and the ocean. The huge tidal wave below them was shot out in all directions. It quickly passed below them, traveling faster than anything that they had seen before. Suddenly the laser, vertex and clouds disappeared in a blinding flash of light.
Spyro and Cynder closed their eyes. Cynder opened her eyes soon after, but Spyro did not. Cynder looked at where Spyro was and looked down. Spyro was falling down to the ocean below. Cynder screamed "Noooooooo!" Spyro fell into the water with a small clap and went down a few meters under the water, bubbles creating a path to his limp body.
In a different place in the distant past:
Evren's belly continued to expand as time went on. She stayed near the temple, but occasionally went out to eat. She spent a lot of time thinking about how she could get rid of Spyro once and for all. She thought for many hours, thinking up of many possibilities, but most of them involved using the element of time as a means of killing Spyro. But she knew that something would happen to her if she were to kill Spyro using time. Ash had told her about the temple, and it clearly said what not to do with the mystical power that Ash had.
She was getting quite desperate, thinking about what she could do, but then an idea managed to find its way into her twisted mind. "Of course. It's so obvious. Now all I have to do is wait…" said Evren to herself. She began to chuckle.
A few days passed and it was time. Evren began to scream in pain and agony as an egg came out of her, but in a little while, it was all over. The egg was both black and purple. Evren started to cry at the sight of her child. Even though it had been against her will at first, she couldn't help but wonder what it would look like when it hatched from the egg. She wondered whether it would be a male or a female. She kept on crying because of what she was about to do. She grabbed the egg and bent space until they were at some falls.
A large amount of water came out of a hole in the side of a mountain. She splashed her egg with some water to wash and clean it up. The top half of the egg was black with purple spots near the middle and the bottom half was purple with black spots near the middle. Once the egg was clean and dry, Evren started to bend space again. But before she did she saw a shooting star in the sky. It was night and two moons were in the sky. She began to make a wish as she began to disappear.
Evren appeared in convexity on a large floating platform. Around her were very large jellyfish-like creatures with large tentacles. Their bodies were slightly elongated, and were very dark colors. There were many other smaller platforms floating around in convexity. Convexity was surrounded by two large disks of light, one to the upper left of convexity and another at the bottom left. Evren knew that the upper left one lead to the Light Realms, while the other lead to the Dark Realms, but even Evren shuddered at the thought of using creatures from the Dark Realms against Spyro. After all, her element was space. Nothing else. She knew that she could only do so much, and to release a creature from the Dark Realms would be extremely dangerous, because it would be very hard to bring it back or kill.
Evren looked around and found the tall altar that she was looking for. A bright shining purple and white beam shined through the altar, going all the way to the edge of convexity. Evren wept as she put the egg into the beam, sending the egg into convexity. "May the ancestors look after you."
Evren continued crying as she bent space and appeared at the temple that she was in earlier. She looked around for the crystal and found it lying down on the ground near the center of the temple. The rainbow colored substance was completely emptied from the crystal, and Evren felt herself travel through time. She started to bend space and appeared in her castle at the ground level.
She began to change herself back into a dragon, making awkward sounds again, getting more muscles, thicker legs, a smaller hip, smaller chest and a lower voice. In a few moments, Evren had changed from a female to a male. His physical pain went away but his emotional pain only intensified.
"Aaaaaaahhhhhhhh!"
Ash heard Evren and went inside his room quickly. 'Oh no. Oh no. I'm really gonna get it now. Oh, please, please, please don't come in here.' Ash walked over to his bed and curled up on top of it. He started shaking and couldn't stop. 'Does he know that I went in his room? What if he figures out? What is he going to do to me?' Ash started crying and whimpering even though Evren wasn't near his room.
"What am I going to say to my child when I take him out of convexity?" screamed Evren. "He's been trapped in there his or her entire life because of what I did! How am I supposed to explain what happened to him? I can't explain it to him! He might be as dumb as a rock for all I know! Who knows if he can even speak or walk? How is this going to work?" yelled Evren at the top of his lungs.
'What is he talking about? A child? Convexity?' thought Ash. 'Is he going crazy or did he really mess around with time this time? As long as I don't get punished for it, I'm okay with whatever he did…' Ash kept on shaking, but not as much. He managed to stop crying, and wiped the tears off his face with his paw. His eyes' veins were still more visible than normal, but his face wasn't wet anymore.
Evren walked back and forth on the floor of the castle. "This is so messed up. There's no way I'm going to be able to fix this. I might as well oughta go now" said Evren. He started to bend space again and disappeared from the castle. Ash tried to be extremely still and noticed that the castle was silent, save for a couple of guards chattering about how angry Evren sounded. Ash slowly got up and walked out of his room. He went to the right and took a left down some stairs to the main area of the castle where Evren previously was. He looked around but didn't see Evren anywhere. He looked down at the floor and noticed the crystal was empty of the rainbow colored substance.