Spyro Bridge Across Worlds Remake

by

Bolt Greywing

The White Dragon

As Zach began to awaken from that horrible nightmare of a dream that he just had, he got the strangest feeling that he was somewhere completely different. Zach shook that thought out of his mind and knew that he was safe at home in his comfy bed with his Mom busy downstairs making some delicious pancakes. He always liked it when she would make pancakes for him, because it was his special treat, pretty soon now she would open the curtains and let the fresh sunlight in to his room.

When his mother opened up the curtains in his bedroom, the sunlight felt so much brighter than normal that he promptly fell out of his bed. Sometimes Zach would fall out of his bed during the night if it was a really horrible dream that he was having, but this was the morning. As Zach looked up from the hard floor of his bedroom, he couldn't help thinking how peculiar the sunlight was today. The sunlight at his home was normally quite mild, but this particular sunlight felt like it was coming from a rainforest.

What on earth is going on around here? Zach wondered aloud as he attempted to get back on his feet. For some strange reason his legs refused to give him any kid of support almost as if they had been turned to lead. He assumed that he must have slept on them funnily during the night as to why it was refusing to work. His legs just needed to be warmed up a bit through some stretching exercises to get the blood pumping again he assumed.

He began to try curling his legs up to his chest, but still they refused to cooperate. Zach rubbed his eyes as he tried to get the sleep out of them so that he could focus his mind to the cause of this problem. When he moved his hands away from his face the vision of his bedroom and Mom disappeared and were replaced by a forest of trees with him laying down in the middle of a small crater.

Zach gasped at the strange environment that he found himself in. "What in the world... Where am I, and how did I get here?"

Zach decided to try pushing himself up again, but he promptly fell back down again. "Dang legs are still asleep. I'll have to get the circulation back into them so I can go home, but where is home?"

He turned to move his legs into a better position, but stopped dead cold in his tracks. His legs weren't there anymore, instead there were two long scaly hind legs.

"Ahhhhhhhh!" Zach screamed in horror at this ghostly change.

He scrambled backwards as quickly as his arms could take him, but still the scaly appendages followed him.

It was then that Zach took the time to get a good look at his ams, and he was shocked to discover that his arms too were covered in scales that ended not in hands, but with three fingered talons. Zach laid down in the dirt and covered his face with his hands as he began to grasp his situation.

"This has got to be some kind of horrible nightmare that I am having. Heheheh. Maybe if I just count to ten then maybe it will be back to normal, I hope." Zach laughed nervously. "One...Two...Three...Four...Five...Six...Seven...Eight...Nine...Ten!"

When he removed his hands from his face and looked again the scales and talons were still there. It was then that Zach felt a sharp stabbing pain across his back most likely from dragging it along the forest floor in a panic. Yet the pain seemed to be emanating from a position that he could not readily identify.

"Do I dare look behind me to see what's there?" Zach asked unsure if he really wanted to know the answer.

The pain continued to get worse as he tried to ignore it and soon it became enough of a nuisance that he could no longer ignore it. He had to know the cause of it though he dreaded what he would find back there. Zach rolled onto his stomach and craned his neck to get a better look at what was behind him. And there sitting in plain sight and frightfully attached to his back was a pair of leathery wings.

"Ok this would be really cool if I wasn't scared out of my mind right now. Scales, talons, different sized appendages, wings... this is all too much to take in, if I didn't know any better I'd say I was a..." Zach stopped himself short not wanting to say the word he feared was on the tip of his tongue.

He had to find something reflective that would show how he truly looked, he needed to know the answer. Zach half walked, half crawled his way to a nearby stream that he heard running straight ahead. He hadn't really figured out the four legged walking pattern yet so his movements tended to be quite sluggish and he slipped a lot only to right himself once again.

The stream was clear and slow moving making it the perfect reflective surface. As Zach slowly walked up to the water he nearly passed out at what he saw. It was not a human face that stared back to him in the reflection, but the image of a terrible dragon. A dragon with scales as white as death itself covered his entire face, a squarish jawline with what he supposed was a snout, if you could even call it that and a high forehead, it was a very strange sight indeed.

But there were two features that stood out above the rest. One of which being horns of a bluish green color that started just above his nose and between his eyes, running along his back was a set of squarishly sharp blue spines that stretched almost to the tip of his tail. His wings were also the same shade of blue with eyes to match. This was noticeable by itself, but was made even stranger by the fact that he normally had brown eyes.

This was too weird, but then again nothing was normal right now. He gave himself another look around. The rest of the scales along his body were white which matched the scales along his face, except for the scales along his chest and stomach. These scales were the same deep blue of his eyes and he also noted that he had a tail, how he missed that earlier he wasn't quite sure, but it was there now.

It too was white like the rest of his body and it ended in a V shaped spike that curved slightly inward, similar to the horns on his forehead. He stood at a good height, and from what he could tell, he seemed fit and muscular, but then again, he knew nothing about what a dragon was like, except from what he remembered from his dreams. As he pondered his transformation he thought back to what Firebringer had told him. "Your a very special type of dragon Zach and the world needs your help at this very crucial time."

They must have known I am a dragon when they first saw me, but how could I not notice this before? Zach wondered.

Zach dropped down to the lake's edge and began to cry knowing that he had abandoned those two poor dragons that helped him escape to death by the apes or worse. He should have done something, but there was little he could do. As he shed all the tears he could, he made a promise to himself that he would rescue those two no matter what the risks were.

Zach looked around again at the river and the surrounding forest, could he be on the island from his dream, or was it a dream, maybe it was real, and if so that would explain the crater he woke up in. Either way, this was too weird for him. He was lost, confused, in a different body, he was definitely not going to get that quiet summer that he wanted. Hopefully this was just a bad dream, but something told him that he was in for a long journey. Suddenly a small smile came to him as he remembered something, he couldn't believe he was going to say it, but he couldn't resist the temptation anymore. "I don't think I'm in Kansas anymore... heck I don't think I'm human anymore."

Meanwhile back at the cavern dungeon the ape leader of the southern group conferenced with the rest of his cohort. One of the ape guards burst into the room unannounced.

"My lord one of the dragons has escaped!" The guard began.

"Fool haven't I told you not to disturb me while I am busy making my plans." The leader growled.

"I am sorry my lord, but one of the dragons has escaped." The guard replied.

"WHAT!" The leader growled and then clamped his arm around the guards throat. "This better not be a joke!"

"No your lordship, the dragon escaped the snake chain amulet, but we believe it had help!" The guard grunted form the pressure on his throat.

The leader exerted even tighter pressure on the ape. "So it had accomplices well that certainly is interesting. Pray tell which dragon escaped the confines?"

"Ack Ack I can't breath. The white one he disappeared through an undiscovered fire portal." The guard replied while gasping for breath. "We have... the... other... two."

"So the special one has escaped, well well. Keep the other two alive for now they may prove to be quite useful." The leader then released his grip. "It seems like we will need a more powerful chain to be made."

"I will get the best smiths on it." The ape guard replied before leaving.

As the rest of the apes filled out only the leader was left. "So Zach you escaped my clutches for now, but the next time we meet the last thing you will ever see will be red! Hahahahaha!"

(Author's notes: I should have saved this part of the story for Halloween. What do you guys think this guy has planned? Will Zach ever find his way home? What will happen to the two dragons? And will Moonlight ever stop stealing my popcorn out of my movie bowl?

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)