Spyro Bridge Across Worlds Remake

by

Bolt Greywing

The Clever Attack

As Spyro woke again with a start as though his conscience was trying to tell him that there was danger a foot. He sat motionless listening to the silence around him, but again there was nothing. This had to stop, he was always on edge, always expecting something to go horribly wrong. As he looked at Cynder who was sleeping next to him, he could tell from her slow breathing that she was still fast asleep. If he didn't stop this paranoia soon, he would never sleep a whole night again.

He just needed to calm down and quiet his restless mind. A shuffling noise in the bushes behind him made Spyro jump up into a ready position, his head swiveling around in the black of the night, ready for anything that came his way, yet nothing happened. His ears were only greeted with silence as he stood and listened to the world around him. Spyro let out a sigh of relief and frustration, his heart was pounding in his head and his adrenaline level had spiked, he was on full alert and for what? Something he thought he had heard.

After he made his rounds he laid back down next to Cynder. He was comfortable now that nothing seemed out of the ordinary in his search, at least for a while. At least he had not woken up Cynder again so that was a good thing and perhaps now he could finally get some sleep.

The apes were well hidden beneath the branches of several large shrubs as they peered down at the sleeping dragons nearby. The apes decided to play a trick on the sleeping dragons by shaking some of the neighboring bushes. Like clockwork one of the dragons began to stir as the apes giggled silently with laughter. While the purple dragon was up the apes fell silent to keep the element of surprise in their favor. They wanted to keep their quarry off guard and then strike they least suspected it. They watched the purple dragon look down at the black one for the time being before it went off searching for spooks. The apes were quite pleased with the result that came from shaking the bushes, the purple dragon was completely on edge.

When the dragon finally settled down again after about ten minutes, the apes began to shake the bushes again, but this time behind the purple dragon. The apes watched the purple dragon become more paranoid with fear from even the slightest noise they made. They again delighted in the torture they were causing Spyro, knowing full well they needed him to be off his guard as much as possible. When the purple dragon began to start making his rounds the apes dug deeper into their covering so that they wouldn't be seen.

The ape captain and his lieutenant were discussing the various plans of what they would do next when it finally was time to strike.

"The dragon is distracted we should begin our attack now!" The lieutenant spoke.

"Not yet I want him at his most vulnerable period otherwise he will torch us." The captain replied.

The two stood in silence for sometime before Spyro finally headed back to Cynder to rest again. When the dragon's eyes finally began to close the captain began to signal for the attack. Unfortunately one of the apes stepped on a broken tree branch causing a resounding crunch.

Spyro's ears perked up at the noise awakening him from his slumber. He stood up again and began to look around for the source of the sound. His attention was immediately brought back to the bushes where he thought he had heard something earlier. Taking a cautious step forward, Spyro began to approach the vegetation.

"You fool! Now the purple dragon knows we are here!" The captain shouted as he saw the dragon rise and start to head over to their cover. When he finally came close to the vegetation they were were in, the ape captain gave the order. "Attack the purple dragon!"

Spyro wasn't prepared for the creature that came out of the bushes. As soon as he turned to look at the tree, an ape wielding a club leaped out of the bushes. He tried to react to his present danger, but he wasn't fast enough and was tackled by the ape. Spyro and the ape went rolling across the clearing until finally coming to rest near a tree by the cliffs. The ape hefted his mighty club and started to lower the boom down on Spyro's head. Spyro however had other plans, and used his hind legs to kick the ape off and into a tree, breaking its neck. Cynder having heard all the commotion had stirred from her slumber. "Spyro what's going on, is that an ape, are you ok..."

But her next question was cut short as more apes leapt from the bushes, one of them knocking her out on the way with a blow to the head.

Cynder crumpled to the forest floor and was hoisted up by one of the apes who had passed by. With a smirk in his voice he spoke to the unconscious Cynder. "You tried to run away from us and the Dark Master, Terror of the Night Skies. You have become weak and soft in the purple dragon's care, but no matter you will worship the Dark Master soon enough."

"Don't you dare lay a hand on her, I will not let you or the Dark Master have her back." Spyro growled enraged at the apes actions. "Don't think I won't kill you if you harm her."

The ape captain stepped forth in his well polished armor and finely made blade to confront Spyro and laughed. "Oh we certainly wouldn't dare dream of that, Cynder has a far greater role to play in the Dark Master's army. However you have been a thorn in our side since the very beginning, you have stopped far too many of our plans from succeeding. Our new master says that I should capture you, but my clan thinks otherwise. Its time for me to end you once and for all you purple pest."

"I'll burn you to a crisp first!" Spyro replied.

The ape captain laughed. "Oh really, then why don't you give it a try,were all waiting and I promise, I'll stand still."

It was never a good thing when the person you're fighting challenges you to attack them like that, because it usually means it won't work. Spyro knew he was far too drained to even try a fireball, but he had to make the attempt. There was on way he was going to let these apes take Cynder with them. Spyro dug deep inside himself and opened his mouth to launch a fireball, but all that came out was hot air. Things were not looking good for Spyro.

"Ha I knew it, you're far too drained to make even the smallest spark. Such a pity I was expecting so much more from Ignitus's star pupil. Now I can see that your all washed up and now without your precious Ignitus to hide behind your as good as dead. So much for your mystical dragon power, I was expecting this battle to be a challenge, but now I know you are nothing." The captain looked at him with pity. "Lets finish this!"

There were nine apes in total though a few more were observing from the bushes. The apes created a semi-circle around him, alternating sword and spear, cutting him off from Cynder and pushing him closer towards the cliffs edge. Spyro tried to ram one of them, but when he did, the other apes around him would come to his aid. They jabbed at Spyro with their weapons forcing him to back off from his attack.

To make matters worse, every time Spyro backed up, he lost ground as the semi-circle of apes began to close in on him, pushing him closer to the edge of the cliff. Spyro decided to switch up his tactics as it was not working, he attempted to fly around the ape wall, but was unable to get enough lift beneath his wings as they had not yet recovered from the previous night's excursions. Spyro continued to back up until one of his feet slipped on the loose gravel near the edge of the cliff causing a scattering to fall into the river below. Spyro turned around and saw that his foot was touching only air and shuddered at the fact of how close he was to the edge.

This is not good at all. Spyro thought. I have to break their line somewhere or I'm toast. If I can just out their leader, then maybe I can get a little bit of breathing room to finish off the apes and rescue Cynder. It will be a bit of a long shot, but here goes nothing.

Spyro gathered what little strength he had left as he charged blindly towards the leader in the center of their circle. However the captain smirked knowing full well that it was the dragon's last card he had available and in doing so the dragon left himself wide open. The captain sidestepped Spyro's attack and brought the flat of his blade down on Spyro's head knocking him to the ground. Spyro could faintly hear what the apes were talking about as his vision began to swim.

"We should run him through so no one will be the wiser." One of the apes spoke.

"No it is too risky and will potentially lead to our lair being discovered. It is better to throw him into the river so that he drowns and is carried far away from here." Another replied.

As the apes lifted Spyro up from the ground, he fought valiantly for consciousness but so far nothing, his mind was still in a daze. As the apes walked over to the edge and threw him into the water Spyro's continued to fight for consciousness.

Spyro hit the water with a resounding splash the churning current threating to pull him under. Spyro finally broke free from his unconsciousness, but too late. As he tried to fight the current he realized that he was too weak to even put up much of a struggle. His head went under the water several times as the last of his strength faded away. As his head slipped below the surface for the fifth and final time Spyro realized at that very moment that he had failed Cynder when she needed him the most as he passed on from this world.

(Author's notes: So what do you guys think of this part of the story? I thought I would try something different with this part of the setting. So guy and gals please tell me how you liked the story so far. Also please feel free to leave a comment or review to this story if you like. Bolt)