Okay, before you read this chapter, let me tell you that i will get around to Light and Spyros' fight. i just have to explain some things first, so please be patient.

and the poll is still up, but not for much longer. i'd say you have about five or six more chapters until it's closed.

Chapter 28: Taking a chance.

Location: Chronicler Library.

Character: Ignitus.

Ignitus looked at the same portal he had gone through when he had first gotten here. It was inactive now, but Ignitus could see the faint outline of it.

Sarah sighed. "Ignitus, I think Valhalla might be right." She said. "But I don't want this to get to you, okay?"

Ignitus looked at her. "I'm not letting this get to me, okay my love?" he said, folding a wing around her. "But I have to figure out how to get to Asgard. Victory may depend on it this time around."

Sarah smiled, leaning against Ignitus. "That's the Ignitus I fell in love with." She said. She closed her eyes. "Ignitus, I heard what Clara told you. Back in the library." She said.

"What? The part about me taking the first chance I get?" he asked.

Sarah nodded. "Well, there have been a few occasions which made me think that the girl has clairvoyance." She said.

Ignitus nodded. "Same here." He said. He blinked. "Sarah, is it just me or did it suddenly get very cold in here?"

Several seconds earlier (relatively)…

Location: Flint Hospital. Asgard Dimension.

Date: April 2nd. 12:46 AM.

Character: Carlos.

Carlos put his book down and looked at his hand. A purple flicker mixed with black flashed between his index finger and middle finger. I wish I knew why this doesn't feel natural. He thought. There's something not right about my power at all.

His watch beeped, indicating that he should take his pills. Well, it's the only reason why I am alive, so I shouldn't ask questions and just use it when I need to. He thought as he took the bottle out from where he had it hidden under the bed.

He opened the bottle and groaned, thankful that the curtains of his hospital room were drawn closed. "I need a bigger bottle." He said to himself as he put a hand over the empty bottle, calling on his power to get more of the much-needed medicine.

When the purple and black have filled the bottle, though, some of it suddenly drifted toward a spot on the floor, forming a circle just under knee high. Then electrical arcs filled the circle in straight, rod like lines, then started to spin faster and faster.

"What the hell?" Carlos said out loud, dropping the bottle.

Location: Chronicler library.

Character: Ignitus.

Ignitus watched as the portal suddenly came alive and opened up with lines of purple and black spiraling down into the center.

Sarah stared. "Something opened it…" she said, her voice lost.

Ignitus stared at the portal, then grabbed a crystal from the nearby table and looked at Sarah. "Sarah, I know this might seem crazy, but I'm going through."

Sarah looked at her mate like he was crazy. "What? But Ignitus-"

"This might be the only chance I'll get." Ignitus interrupted. "Sarah, I have to do this."

Sarah looked at him. "But Ignitus… what if it's a trap?" she said.

"That's a chance I have to take, my love." He answered, nuzzling her. "Just explain this to Valhalla, okay?" he asked, kissing his mate.

Sarah nodded after breaking the kiss and said, "Alright. Just don't get yourself killed."

Ignitus kissed her again as a goodbye, the looked at the portal. After taking a deep breath, he dove in.

The next thing he knew all he could see was purple and black light all around him. Ignitus looked down at what was under him because it felt like he was on a solid surface, then noticed something about his scales. They were turning from the pale blue he was just starting to get used to, to the dark red he was originally.

Then Ignitus looked up when a bright light came from one end of the portal.

Location: Flint Hospital. Asgard dimension.

Character: Carlos.

Carlos looked around the room and grabbed a razor from the table beside his hospital bed. Not much of a weapon, but it might work! He thought frantically.

He turned back to the circle of mist and lightning, thanking god that it wasn't making any noise that would attract one of the nurses.

But since everyone in the hospital was asleep, Carlos thought the chances of that were very slim.

A silhouette appeared in the circle, small at first, but getting bigger and bigger. Carlos readied his razor to strike if necessary.

Then something red came out of the circle at a high speed and skidded across the smooth white floor. Carlos dropped the razor and jumped onto his bed, shouting in shock.

He thought he heard a voice coming from whatever the red thing was, too.

After a few seconds, Carlos looked over to where the red object slid into the open closet.

His jaw dropped. Whatever it was, it looked like a dragon. It was about the size of a cat, and had some kind of collar on that had some type of crystal hanging from it. At least, from what Carlos could see; a coat and several shirts had fallen on it.

It raised its head and shook itself, freeing itself from the clothing, then looked around the room. Carlos noted that it had red eyes.

It looked at Carlos. Carlos jumped back over the bed and next to the window, back against the back wall. He was curious about what the dragon was, but he wasn't stupid; it might be the size of a cat, but it's claws looked like they were an inch long. And it looked a lot stronger than Carlos was; he saw a lot of muscle under the red scales.

Carlos noticed that the circle had disappeared, though whether or not it was a good thing he wasn't sure.

He looked around for the razor, just in case he might need it.

The dragon, however, found him first.

Character: Ignitus.

When Ignitus left the portal, he found himself skidding uncontrollably across a slippery floor. He struggled to get back under control, letting out an involuntary shout as he crashed into an open door, and he found himself buried under a pile of cloth.

Damn. Whoever opened that portal clearly wasn't expecting a dragon, if anything at all. He thought as he stood up and shook the clothes off of himself.

He looked around. The small room he was in at the moment was clearly a closet (which he noted that he had accidentally messed up completely), and he was just starting to look through the door at a room with somewhat white walls when he saw a human with black hair looking at him.

The instant the human noticed Ignitus looking at him he ducked out of sight. Ignitus noticed some kind of knife on the floor. Well, judging by the size of that knife relative to me, I'm probably the size of a cat right now. Which probably means I'm in the past a few months before Spyro and Cynder came to Asgard.

Ignitus walked into the larger room carefully. There was a bed a few feet away, next to a table and a lamp. The curtains on the window of one side of the room were drawn shut, along with the curtains on a door. The other window on the other side of the room was open, letting in the smell of not-so-fresh air mixed with a few scents Ignitus wasn't at all familiar with.

He looked around more, and saw the human hiding on the other side of the bed, back against the back wall. Ignitus jumped up on the bed to get a look at him without him noticing.

The first thing Ignitus noticed was that the kid was frail. He didn't have all that much muscle, was really skinny, and was extremely pale in skin color, which was in sharp contrast to his hair, which was jet black and grew to just the top of his neck and was brushed back out of his face with a few bangs hanging in front of his right eye.

Ignitus also noticed that the human was just a kid, only 13 or 14. Damn it, I hope this isn't the person that opened the portal. A child is easy prey for the darkness. Ignitus thought.

He moved a little closer to get a better look at the kid. Something fell out of the bed and the kid looked up at Ignitus. He sort of screamed and swung his fist at Ignitus.

He ducked and yelled, "Hey, wait a minute! I'm not here to fight!"

The kid jumped up and retreated. "Okay, I don't know what you are, but can you please just leave without hurting anyone?"

Ignitus looked around. "Okay, I don't even know where and when I am, alright?" he looked back at the child. "And besides, you're the one that brought me here with that portal. Why don't you tell me where I am, save us the trouble?"

The child frowned at him. "Me? Hell, no! I did not open that portal thingamajig! At least, not intentionally!"

Ignitus frowned. "Well, you just basically confessed that you use Dark magic, when you think about what you said."

The kid started. "Wha- Dark magic? NO, I don't use Dark magic! Hell, I don't even know half of the total knowledge about witchcraft!"

Ignitus waved a claw in the direction of where the portal was, saying, "Well, you opened that portal. And the only way you could have done that was if you could use Dark magic to some degree above novice standards. So why are you denying it?"

Character: Carlos.

Dark magic? This lizard with wings is saying I use Dark magic? Carlos thought. Nothing is evil about it! I still have my soul; I'm not wasting away. Or rather, I'm not any weaker than I should be. But this can't be Dark magic. It's keeping me alive, right? That basically means it's a good ability, whatever it is!

Carlos shook his head. "Look, overgrown lizard with wings that obviously has a mental disorder, I do not use Dark magic. That portal I did not open intentionally at all-" Carlos stopped when he noticed that the small dragon looked absolutely livid about that last comment.

"What the hell did you just call me?" it growled.

"Ah, well, I didn't really mean it – seriously I didn't – look, can we just forget about that – oh s-!"

Character: Ignitus.

Ignitus was already a little upset that the kid was using dark magic. But been called an overgrown lizard with wings that has a mental disorder was just too much.

"What the hell did you just call me?" he growled, thinking, This little obviously has a death wish, if he has the guts to say something like that to a dragon's face. He's lucky I'm not Terrador; if he said that to him, Terrador would've killed him on the spot.

The child backed up a pace. "Ah, well, I didn't really mean it – seriously I didn't – look, can we just forget about that – oh s-!"

Ignitus was taken by surprise at the child's language. "Listen here, kid. I can tell you the names of a hundred dragons that probably would've killed you on the spot f you said that to their face. Be glad I'm not on that list."

The child swallowed. "Look, can we just forget that I said that? I didn't really mean it, okay?" he said, backing up more. "I'm just a kid, okay?"

"Yeah, a kid that uses Dark magic." Ignitus answered back.

The kid raised a hand. "Look, does this look like Dark magic?" he asked. As he was talking, a purple mist formed on his hand and condensed into two small points. When they vanished, there were two small white objects in his hand, which he threw into his mouth and swallowed.

Ignitus glared. "That is definite Dark magic." He growled.

"Carlos?"

The child started, then grabbed Ignitus by the neck and threw him into the closet and shut the door. "Uh, Yes Alan?" he called out.

Ignitus heard a door open and another human walk in. "Carlos, I heard you talking. Is there someone else in here?"

Ignitus heard the child laugh nervously. "Ha ha ha, no, I'm just talking to myself."

There was a pause. "Talking to yourself?" the older human asked.

"Yeah. I just needed to think of something to do, so here I am, talking to myself." The child said.

"Okay." The older human said, then Ignitus heard a door open and close.

Then the child sighed. "Well, that was close." He said. Ignitus heard him yawn.

Ignitus yawned too. That kid probably would just go to bed. He thought. I should probably get some sleep, too.

He lied down, yawning again, and that was he last thing he remembered doing before he fell asleep.