Kaz hopped onto his bed after grabbing his laptop from his desk. He had just finished doing all his homework for school the next day. It had taken him a little longer than usual, partly because of an English essay he had to work on, and also explain to Cynder what he was working on or writing about every 5 minutes. It didn't annoy him that much though, because it was a dragon of all things asking him this. He found it kinda cool to introduce her to so many new things at once.
"Alright Cynder, i'm gonna see if I can find anything useful for your cause now. I don't think anything useful is going to turn up though, considering all of this is supposedly fantasy" Kaz said.
Ok, but using what? Shouldn't you be looking through books fore that? Or scrolls for that matter?" asked Cynder.
"Oh, no, that probably won't help. I'm gonna use this, a computer" Kaz replied, showing his sleek laptop to Cynder, before opening up the screen.
"And what does it do?"
"Well, with a computer, it has similar functions as a tv and a phone. However, there is a thing that humans have come up with in the past 30 years called the internet. Here, come and i'll show you how it works" Kaz explained, motioning for Cynder to come over to him your hand, in which he did.
Scooting over to the side of the bed Cynder stood at, he pulled up google. "So what you do, is you use this keyboard to type in anything you want to know about. The data from your question essentially accesses an imaginary "cloud" of some sort, and pulls the information from there and presents you with answers" said Kaz.
"How can it just "get" information?" said Cynder with a puzzled expression?
"Honestly, I don't understand the inner workings of it either" Kaz said. Technology has accelerated so much recently that I think only people who work with that stuff specifically as a job really understand every step.
Cynder paused for thought, to which Kaz could only shrug his soldiers at.
"Alright, so since inter-dimensional isn't supposed to exist, i'll look up some theories that people have for it." Glancing back at Cynder, he also asked "By the way, do you want to sit on the bed with me? I'm sure it would be more comfortable than on the ground you've been on all of last night and this morning."
If dragons could blush, then Cynder would have been doing that right now, if only lightly. "Y-your bed? Isn't that a mate only thing?"
Kaz questioned her reaction, if only lightly. It was most likely a dragon thing for bed being a more sacred place. "Nah, we humans don't symbolize beds or anything. Legit just think of it as a couch for now."
"Alright then" Cynder responded. Hoisting herself up on the bed, as a large dog would, she lay down on the bed alongside Kaz, making sure not to scratch any of the covers he had on it.
"Wow, this is really soft. I haven't felt something like this in ages" Cynder said, noticing how far she sunk into it."
"I guess so. Probably because of the mattress in it though, although I'd assume you don't know what that is either?" Kaz asked, to which Cynder shaked her head to say no.
"Well, it's basically a soft outer shell with springs inside, that way you can lay down comfortably while still having some support."
"Can't you show me a picture of it on your…?"
"It's a computer, and sure." Pulling up an image, Cynder looked at the interior structure of it, she suddenly shook her head.
"Ah, what am I even doing?! This is important, we should be looking for answers, not beds." Cynder suddenly said, apparently annoyed with herself.
"Yeah, sorry. Alright, back on task!" responded Kaz. He typed "Theories on how interdimensional works", he slowly trudged through a few non-serious sources before deciding to just pull up wikipedia, the article titled "Interdimensional Hypothesis". "Alright, I might have something here" Kaz said, before starting to read aloud the article.
"The interdimensional hypothesis is an idea advanced by Ufologists such as Jacques Vallée that says unidentified flying objects and related events involve visitations from other "realities" or "dimensions" that coexist separately alongside our own. It is an alternative to the extraterrestrial hypothesis. DH also holds that UFOs are a modern manifestation of a phenomenon that has occurred throughout recorded human history, which in prior ages were ascribed to mythological or supernatural creatures."
"Uh...what?" said Cynder, obviously confused by the information presented in the first paragraph.
"From what I see, it's trying to say that these people have come up with the idea on how one dimension can coexist with another dimension, but we'll have to keep reading" responded Kaz. Quickly skimming through the page, he didn't find any other substantial information about theory, and exited the page. Scrolling back down through the google search results, he clicked on a website called , which was titled for the article "Extraterrestrial and Extradimensional Beings-How they travel space and time"
"To think, I though all of this was a load of crap before…" Kaz said, slightly laughing at himself.
At the beginning of the article, there was a picture of a wormhole with the earth on one side and another universe on the other side. Kaz focused intently for a little while on the paragraph that claimed how there were thousands of so called dimensions. Kaz was going to take with a grain of salt though, It was still hard to determine what was fact from fiction by now.
Scrolling down as Cynder, who was reading over his shoulder, looked completely lost, he skimmed through another paragraph claiming that these dimensions were separated by something called "Dark Energy" and "Light Energy" and was what allowed these passageways to exist. Most of the following claims seemed to make little sense for Kaz either.
Finally though, Kaz was able to finish reading to the end of the passage which talked about how it thought travel through these dimensions were possible. Apparently, there were multiple different types of portals, but what really caught Kaz, and Cynder's eye, was that these portals couldn't just form and collapse, and instead persisted. They were called jump gates,
"Wait a minute" said Kaz, "If jump gates can't just collapse, than that means that the gate still exists..."
"And because it still exists, that means…" Cynder continued.
"You can get back to your world through it! The portal must surely still be here!" Kaz said excitedly. Bringing himself back to earth though, he added "Although we don't even know if that theory actually exists. This could be completely made up for clicks…"
"I mean, it's something though" Cynder said, still a look of hope on her face. "I'll do whatever it takes to get back to Spyro!"
As it turned out, the passage about jump gate portals was the end of the article. Deeming that this was as much help they were going to get from the internet, Kaz shut off his computer and placed it down.
Yep, i'm alive. Thought i'd publish this even though it was written 6 months ago and not completely done. Just lost motivation as school got busier. Bear with me until December once i submit all my college applications, and then the story will hopefully be back on track.