Spyro Bridge Across Worlds Remake
by
Bolt Greywing
Dreams
Zach began to count down the minutes of time while taking his math final. He had studied really hard the previous night for this test, but still he hated it. Math had always been a difficult subject for him, but he felt confident this time. I just need to survive a few more minutes of this and then I can finally kick back for the summer. Zach thought to himself. Tick tick went the clock in the Tally High Middle School. The teacher Ms. Gravin watched the students like a swift hawk.
Zach and several of the students really disliked her for she gave really hard tests. There were rumors that the last class she taught last year had an equally bad time. Supposedly 80% of the students in her class failed the class. He really hoped that would not happen to him, there was no way he wanted to repeat this course. There was no way that Ms. Gavin could leave teaching classes since she had tenure and wasn't going to leave for a very long time. He finally finished his final with 10 minutes to spare and turned it in.
"Thank you Zach hopefully you did well on the final." Ms. Gravin spoke. "Though your grades have been low as of late."
Well it is no thanks to you for giving such hard tests. Zach thought, but he certainly wasn't going to tell her that. "I put in a lot of work on studying for this final, I think I should do well." Zach replied.
"Well keep it up and you will be an awesome student one of these days." Ms. Gravin replied.
The school bell finally rang ending his torment with this horrible teacher. Zach breathed a sigh of relief and was glad that this final class was now over as he exited the class room door. This semester of classes had been extremely stressful and now that summer was here, he could finally relax. As he exited the school door he waved back to his friends as he got into his Mom's car and drove to the house.
Zach was a normal kid as far as he was concerned though his Mom mentioned that he was a little bit overweight and needed a bit of exercise to slim down. Well maybe he could try to eat a little bit less sweets from now on. He had brown hair, brown eyes, and was about an average height compared to the rest of the class though he couldn't get any blander if he wanted to. Still he liked himself for who he was as the wind blew his around. The windows were always rolled down since the air conditioner in the car had broken down very recently.
When he got home he ate a little dinner and headed up to bed. After walking up early in the morning for classes for the past hundred and eighty days, he felt that he deserved to sleep in and decided to get an early jump start on it. As Zach laid down to sleep, he let his mind drift to some of the exciting summer activities he had planned. Yet something was bugging his peaceful slumber, something he feared would stay with him. For the past few months these strange dreams had been plaguing Zach's subconscious, some of which were nightmares.
The world around him in this dream landscape was quite bizarre and didn't make a lot of sense. Zach felt like he was seeing through the eyes of another person's life. However it was not any ordinary person he was seeing through, but that of a powerful dragon. Almost every night for the past few months, he had watched through the eyes of several different dragons, each of which had a different style of fighting and a specific task they needed to perform. Most surprising of all Zach could hear every word and every sentence that the dragons spoke to each other with added clarity. He knew their names, their feelings, and their personalities as well as he knew his own.
It felt like he was living a double life, one while he was awake and the other while he was asleep. However he could not interact with them, he was just a silent spectator watching events unfold before him, but never affecting the outcome. As he rolled over he couldn't help, but drift into the thoughts that came to him every night. The thought that these dreams had happened before, over three years ago to be exact. He thought back to that night long ago when he woke up crying in the middle of the night, not only were these characters people he had come to think of as family had not only killed other creatures, but they were going to die crushed by the mountain collapsing around them.
After that night he had no more dreams until a few nights ago. They had started again with the same characters, but never from the same point that his other dreams had left off. None of this was making any sense to Zach, these dreams appeared to be so scattered that even the characters themselves had no recollection of the time passed either. So he guessed that they were just as confused as he was, but that still didn't explain why he was having these dreams, and what they meant. Were they trying to tell him something or was it just his mind playing tricks on him?
As Zach shifted from one side of the bed to the other, he couldn't help, but ponder the dream he had from last night. The dragons from his dream looked very familiar to Zach, but for whatever reason he couldn't really recall what the dragons' names were. He was normally very good at remembering names, but he was drawing a blank. "Think Zach, think. Focus on the dragons color. Wait one of them is purple right? Is it Tiro? No. Trent? No. Miro? No. I got it, its Spyro the purple dragon." Zach smiled confidently before trying to solve the other one. "That is one of them, now the other one. Well the other dragon is definitely female and the color of her scales is black. Let me see, Sara? No. Jane? No. Something like Syreen. Oh wait I got it, its Cynder the black dragon."
The two characters in his dream were inside some sort of large cavern and the heat there was quite stifling, even in his dream he could feel it, it must have been some kind of volcano or somewhere deep in the earth. Yet Spyro and Cynder were not alone, there was another large purple dragon with them, Malefor the cause of all their troubles for the past three years was there as well. There had been a large battle with Spyro and Cynder almost getting killed multiple times, but in the end Malefor was defeated. Unfortunately, the world was still falling apart around them, in the middle of all this chaos Cynder finally confessed her love for Spyro. The dream ended with Spyro releasing a bright flash of light from his body in the center of the room. Zach woke up covered in sweat and crying again for the loss of his characters. He didn't know what this night would bring, would he have another dream or would he be left to wonder like those years ago?
As he mulled over these thoughts, he tossed and turned in his bed. He didn't know if sleep would ever come to him, but he needed it. It had been a rough week at school with his lack of sleep from school and the finals he had to take. He just needed to wind down and take it easy for a week. Without any plans so far for the summer, all he was going to do was sit around the house, sleep and maybe read a good book. Zach knew that it wasn't going to be that easy since his Mom probably had a ton of chores planned for him. He really hoped that she wouldn't have him mow the lawn or take take out the trash since he really hated doing it. Ever since his father left his mother Zach had to pickup the slack for the missing parent and his mom had to get a job to support them. Yes he was going to have a nice easy, boring summer. Well that's what he thought at least. Little did he know as he drifted off to sleep that there was much more in store for him than staying at home that summer.
(Author's notes: This part of the story was a bit more challenging than the previous chapter was. It was kind of difficult to add more depth to Zach since he is a pretty well fleshed out character. Tallonran is very good author and a lot of writers could learn a thing or too from him.
Compared to the original with this new chapter for Zach we now have a total of 8 pages to this story and it is not even finished yet. Please feel free to leave a comment or review to this story if you like it. Bolt)