Spyro Bridge Across Worlds Remake

by

Bolt Greywing

Bathing a Dragon

"Dead, dead! There must be some kind of mistake." Spyro shouted in alarm.

"There is no mistake dear dragon you are just a soul same as me." Brian replied.

"No I can't be dead, there is so many creatures that are dependent on me." Spyro sniffled.

"I know getting used to this place can be challenging, but your friends will soon be here too." Brian replied trying to sooth the dragon.

"I don't want my friends to be dead. I want to be alive with Cyril, Volteer, and Terradore." Spyro sobbed.

"Little dragon everyone comes here eventually even hatchlings. Its all part of life Spyro, we start out young and helpless, then we grow into adults and finally if we live long enough we become elders." Brian sighed.

"Then I will stop everyone from dying!" Spyro replied.

"And how do you plan on doing that?" Brian asked.

"Well I… um..." Spyro stammered.

"Somethings are beyond the purple dragons' power. Even if you could wouldn't it be boring to live forever?" Brian asked.

"I guess your right." Spyro replied feeling a bit downcast.

"Try not to think about it much Spyro, everything will be better in the morning so get some rest." Brian replied.

"Good night Brian." Spyro yawned before curling up to sleep.

"Good night Spyro, I will see you in the morning." Brian smiled before heading to bed.

When morning had finally came, Brian was standing in front of the dragon holding a sack full of delicious looking apples. "Come on dragon, time to rise and shine."

"Morning Brian I had the most pleasant sleep, I have had in a long time." Spyro replied.

"Glad you did Spyro and now it is time for your breakfast." Brian smiled.

Spyro look inside the sacked and turned his face away in disgust. "Do I really have to eat those things? Can't I just have deer meat instead?"

"I am sorry dragon, but apples is the only thing we have up here." Brian replied.

"I'd rather eat my dragonfly parents food then these apples." Spyro replied as he remembered all the worm root, swamp slime and disgusting bugs, he had to eat growing up. He often wondered how he had managed to down all of it without spewing it all across the floor of their mushroom tree home.

"If thats how you feel Spyro then I can't stop you, however the longer you delay the greater the peril awaits your friend Cynder." Brian spoke. "Anyway I will be taking this sack of food away."

"Wait… How do you know what is happening to Cynder?" Spyro asked.

"Well Spyro the Chronicler told me about her." Brian replied.

"I met the Chronicler once, how did you manage to get an audience with?" Spyro asked.

"Well it must have been two months ago maybe more, that I met the new Chronicler. It was a very big celebration." Brian narrated.

"A new Chronicler how?!" Spyro exclaimed.

"If you would let me finish first with my story then I will explain how it happened." Brian replied.

"Sorry Brian please continue." Spyro apologized.

"The old Chronicler had just left and the room had been left in a dreadful mess. The new Chronicler was so to speak overwhelmed by the amount of books that had awaited him as well as the amount of broken quills that were scattered this way and that. I stumbled into him while I was looking for a very special book." Brian narrated.

"I am guessing you decided to help him with the organizing." Spyro replied.

"Quite so young dragon. I asked him if he could use some help with the books and he said no thank you, but thanks for the offer. Your name is Brian is it not? I nodded and asked him if he had a special book about the history of dragons. He said that he thought he did but he didn't know where it could be. As the day progressed he looked more flustered as things didn't seem to be going his way. So I lent him my hand and helped him bring a new ordering system into existence. Each Chronicler you see has their own style of organizing." Brian continued and then whispered. "Some Chroniclers organizing system is quite bad but those are quite rare."

"I'd like to see him one day. Maybe he could help me." Spyro replied.

"Indeed young dragon, however now it is time I gave you a bath." Brian replied.

"There is no need I am clean already." Spyro nervously smiled.

"I insist young dragon. I have prepared it outside just for you." Brian spoke in a dark voice.

"Uh something tells me I am not going to like this." Spyro whimpered.

"No, but it will be a lot of fun. I brought this out just in case." Brian mischievously smiled while holding out a large rope.

"What do you plan to do with that?" Spyro asked.

"You will soon see." Brian darkly laughed as he threw the rope at the dragon.

The rope being quite magical wrapped itself into a loop around the dragon's neck.

"Let go of me!" Spyro yelled in alarm as he tried to pull away.

Brian kept tugging the dragon ever so slightly inching him outside.

"I don't want to go out there!" Spyro yelled.

"I don't care, you are going out there whether you like it or not." Brian replied.

As Spyro neared the entrance he saw what appeared to be a large basin full of water. Since he was young Spyro had always been very nervous around large bodies of water. The drowning by the apes pushed his fear even further and as such he was beginning to shiver and sweat.

"Please, please I don't want to go in that thing. I am very scared." Spyro began to sob.

"Look dragon you smell extremely bad and are in desperate need of a bath." Brian replied.

"I am just scared of drowning. Can't we do it some other way?" Spyro pleaded.

"Yes I can, but it will take me a while." Brian replied.

"Then please do it." Spyro replied.

Brian disappeared from sight into one of his other burrows which held all sort of local herbs and medicines. He selected three different ingredients along with a dash of dragon nip that he read in of his books titled how to sooth a dragon volume three. When it had changed to a nice bluish color he sealed it in a flask and emerged from his burrow thirty minutes later.

"What is that thing?" Spyro asked.

"Its a potion I made to calm nerves. Drink it all down." Brian replied.

"Alright." Spyro replied looking at the flask suspiciously.

"Its perfectly safe I borrowed the recipe from one of the Chronicler's books." Brian replied.

Spyro then drank the strange liquid down. After ten minutes the potion began to kick in. Spyro felt an intense pleasure bubbling up inside of him. Brian then lead the zonked dragon into the tub of water with relative ease. When Spyro was fully in, he got out a couple of nice brushes adding a bit of soap to the mix and began to scrub the dragon down. Spyro played with the bubbles in the tub while Brian continued to clean him, by scrubbing off the large amount of grime that was attached to his scales.

(Author's notes: As a method to offset the previous chapter I thought it best to set up a more playful environment for Spyro and Brian. I thought that trying to bathe a dragon would be kind of a fitting title as Spyro and Cynder probably picked up a lot of dirt from their many adventures which lead me to wonder if they ever cleaned themselves. Its not really mentioned in the Spyro games nor the original story.

Since this is probably the last you will see of these characters for a while, I thought it best to let you guys know first hand. I have several different characters that will play pretty substantial roles in the next set of chapters. However Terradore will be returning in the next chapter.

I hope you are enjoying this story so far. I plan to continue writing more chapters as soon as I have a plan of what action is going to take place next. Till then I hope you enjoy the ones I have currently written.)