Summer Forest
Upon arriving in Summer Forest, Spyro and Iseras finally got to formally introduce themselves to the others. "I never got the chance to introduce myself. I'm Elora."
"Hi. I'm Spyro."
"I'm Iseras."
"What are you, some kind of goat?" asked Spyro.
"I'm a faun you dork!" replied Elora.
"Smooth move brother."
"Wait, you're brothers?" asked Elora.
Iseras nodded, "We're twins."
"We met the miners in Glimmer. They gave me a souvenir, something called a talisman."
"They gave you a talisman."
"Yeah, I just stuck it in the guidebook you gave us."
"Are they important?"
Elora replied, "There are fourteen talismans in Avalar. If you collect them all, you might be able to beat Ripto." Hunter then came out of the portal.
"Hunter, where have you been?"
"I…sort of got lost." said Hunter. Iseras giggled.
"You live here. How do you get lost?"
"Hunter, Spyro and Iseras are going to help us collect the talismans."
"We are?" Spyro and Iseras asked in unison and Hunter asked immediately afterward, "They are?"
"Spyro, Iseras look. There is no way you can go to Dragon Shores right now. Ripto and his monsters have taken over the castle here in Summer Forest. You have to go to each of the worlds and convince the inhabitants to give you their talisman."
"She's got a point brother."
Hunter spoke up, "Hey, I could that! Why don't the dragons just torch Ripto?"
Iseras turned and said, "Ripto's a coward. We'll have to beat his minions first."
"Hunter! You can't even keep track of your running shoes! How are we going to trust you with fourteen talismans?"
Hunter was speechless and Elora continued, "If you come across any orbs, collect them. They're important too, but I'll tell you about them later."
"Okay. No problem. I'll collect a few talismans, give Ripto the old hotfoot, and be in Dragon Shores by lunchtime."
Spyro ran off while Iseras said, "When he says something like that, something goes wrong." Iseras ran off after Spyro and the two set to work.
The two collected all the gems that they could see and defeated the few enemies that were there. But when they came to water, the brothers saw a problem.
"Uh, Spyro? How do we get to those gems? We can't swim." Just then a big bear came over to them.
"Hello, I'm Moneybags. would like to learn how to swim? For a small fee I could teach you both."
He named the price and Spyro and Iseras paid the fee. Within a few minutes Spyro and Iseras had learned how to swim and they dove right in.
"Banzai!" yelled Iseras as he dove in. Spyro grinned at his brother and jumped in after.
after the two were done swimming, they hopped onto an island and laid down to dry off. After drying off, the two saw that they were next to a portal.
"Let's go!" said Spyro and he jumped into the portal.
"Always the adventurous one." remarked Iseras to no one in particular and jumped in.
When they arrived in Idol Springs, they spoke with one of the carvers. Since the idols were made out of wood, Iseras would torch the idols while Spyro helped out the carvers.
Iseras had vanished inside to find more idols. He saw one chasing around a carver and Iseras ran over to help. With a quick shot of flame the idol was nothing but ashes. The carver opened the door and Iseras was about to step through when he saw a carver holding a metal shield. He smiled and shot a bolt of electricity, which made the idol's arm catch fire and ultimately burn itself to ashes.
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Meanwhile Spyro was helping a carver unlock his chest. He hopped on a square and watched them turn green, within a few hops he had a pattern and Spyro quickly solved the puzzle.
"Thank you Spyro! Only two more puzzles to go." Spyro nodded and leapt back into the water and emerged for his second challenge. It turned out that he had to feed the big idol, and he had to feed it only certain colored fish. Spyro finished that challenge easily and moved on to the third challenge. He looked at the puzzle, trying to find the pattern. He suddenly recognized it as matching shapes and colors. He solved that puzzle quickly and after the tool chest opened, he got an orb from the carver.
Iseras meantime had just finished torching all of the idols. He met a carver and the carver gave him the Idol Springs talisman. Iseras thanked him and walked away to find Spyro. Fighting those idols had stirred his inner darkness, and that stirring had scared him a little. If his darkness was going to be stirred by this fighting, he might want to fight less and if he loses control, Spyro will need to be nearby.
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Spyro accepted the orb and turned to leave the carver female. He had freed them and they destroyed a very large idol. Iseras came running up to him, smiling. The brothers embraced and Iseras said, "I have the talisman Spyro. Those idols were easy."
Spyro nodded, "I got us a few orbs as well. Let's get out of here." They ran off to the portal. On the way Spyro noticed that Iseras was deep in thought, and those thoughts did look very cheery.
"Iseras?" asked Spyro, looking concerned for his brother. Iseras remained silent until they returned to Summer Forest. Once he got there Iseras turned to Spyro.
"Spyro my inner darkness touched me while I used my elements there. It has made me worried that without me being around the others, my darkness may come out."
Spyro immediately pulled Iseras into a brotherly hug. "You always have me my brother. I shall help you through this. From now on we go together everywhere. I will help keep your darkness down. Count on it."
Iseras smiled and he licked Spyro's cheek follows by an affectionate nuzzle. "Thank you brother. I always seem to be happy around you, and you know how to comfort me. And yet, I'm scared."
Spyro said, "You have every reason to be. But we will be courageous and get through this. As long as we have each other we are invincible."
Iseras nodded, "You're right. Come on. We have more talismans to get."
Together the two brothers ran off to the next portal, and their next adventure.
To be continued….