Spyro Bridge Across Worlds Remake
by
Bolt Greywing
Cynder's Choice
The apes watched the struggling dragon sink beneath the waves of the raging waterfall. The Darkmaster's greatest enemy Spyro was no more, but a lifeless shell. No more would the purple dragon be around to ruin their plans from going forward. There would be a big celebration awaiting their return and now with Cynder once more within their grasp a new diabolical plan was forming within the captain's mind. The so called master who had taken over Malefor's role was going to be in for a big surprise. The captain did not trust this new master and had recruited a large number of followers to one day overthrow the new master.
"Captain the crew is awaiting for your speech." The Lieutenant spoke.
"Very well." The Captain acknowledged. "We fought well against the purple pest."
"Here, here." Shouted one of the apes from the crowd.
"A great victory for our lord Malefor, rum and ale for everyone here!" The Captain continued.
"Hooray!" Shouted the crowd of apes.
The ape crew marched through the forest towards the Silver River until they saw a signal fire coming from another part of the forest.
"Sir there appears to be a fire coming from the path we landed our Dreadwings in. I sense there may be trouble ahead." One of the Lieutenants spoke up.
"Darn it!" The captain shouted as he rushed forward.
As the captain rushed forward he noticed a couple of cheetahs rushing off. Arrows were flying across the battlefield as seven apes were fighting against thirty cheetahs trying to defend the remnants of the Dreadwings left. Some of the Dreadwings were trembling in fear a no command was issued by the apes. A few were attacking, but scores of were dead. The captain and his sixteen men were just enough to turn the tide in their favor. As the cheetah's numbers began to dwindle they quickly scatted. After the battle was over seven of his men were injured.
"How many of the Dreadwings are left?" The ape captain asked.
"Out of the original squad of forty fliers only nine were left standing Captain Scarsdale." The ape warrior replied.
"How in praytell was this allowed to happen? I thought I ordered four apes to keep an eye out for trouble." Scarsdale shouted.
"The cheetahs they took us by surprise. One of the guards sent us word to come, sadly we arrived a bit too late. Many Dreadwings lay dead and my team only managed to slow them down. Only seven of us remained, many taken by a previous ambush and this battle." The ape warrior continued.
"Grrr… those cheetahs and their sneak attacks." Scarsdale replied.
"Were very grateful that you show up when you did." The ape warrior replied.
"Aside from this minor set back Cynder the dragon is now with us once more!" The ape captain smiled.
"And what of the purple dragon Spyro?" asked one of the crew.
"He won't be bothering us anymore, he is drowned by the mighty river." Scarsdale laughed with glee.
"The master will be quite pleased with this news." The ape warrior replied.
"Aiee, but don't forget that we must be careful, there is bound to be more of them later on." Scarsdale replied.
"As you wish." The warrior answered.
Scarsdale decided to take an alternate path to the mountains as the scouts he sent up ahead reported a high presence of cheetahs in the area. This alternate path would take a few more hours of time to reach their hideout.
During the trek back to their hideout, Cynder was steadily beginning to stir. The apes looked at her for a moment as they heard her mutter the words Spyro where are you? Her world was utter darkness with not a single light in sight for the first time in a long while. It appeared to her that Spyro was being swallowed up by the darkness. She tried to hold onto him, but she couldn't. In the darkness that surrounded her she cried out. "Spyro come back! I can't fight this alone."
The apes picked up speed knowing that the dragon would soon be awake and knew that they didn't want to be anywhere near her when that happened. As they reached the final stretch they ran into a squadron of cheetahs that had been hiding out only moments before. They surrounded the group and began to close in on all sides.
"You apes are not going anywhere!" shouted one of the cheetahs.
"Then we will go down fighting, we won't lose to cheetah scum like you!" Scarsdale challenged as he brandished his sword, his comrades following his lead.
"Then so be it!" The cheetah commander shouted.
With a large shout from Scarsdale the great battle began with a flurry of swords clashing with the cheetahs shields. The squad of twenty apes and nine Dreadwings going against two hundred armed cheetahs, the odds definitely not in their favor. The apes trying their best against the overwhelming hoard, the remaining Dreadwings being used only as a defensive support unit that sent out shoutwave after shoutwave. This sent some of the cheetahs flying, but the apes needed a squad of four just to protect them. Arrows made flight an impossibility as some hidden archers rained down a swath of arrows down on the apes. The apes lost 4 good men in exchange for 15 cheetah casualties. During this long and heavy battle, Cynder finally opened her eyes and took in the carnage all around her.
Staying with the apes would mean going back to a life of darkness and this time the Dark Master or whoever had taken his place would not let her go so easily this time around. After tasting freedom with her friend Spyro she didn't ever want to go back to the dark ways of her past. They were like a cloud of misery and turmoil to her threating to hold her down forever in the mud and plagued her dreams. Then there was the cheetahs who were fighting the other side of the battle. If she went with the cheetahs, she would probably spend the rest of her life as their prisoner or face the possibility of death at their hands.
There was still many of their kind that still did not trust her the black dragon Cynder for they knew what terrible acts she had done under Malefor's control. The raggedy old fortune teller was quite frightening to her for she feared that without Spyro's help the outcome might have been very different. The fortune teller told her that she brings death to every place she goes. That fortune which would forever haunt her dreams and thoughts.
What if what the fortune teller said was true? What if she was right? Cynder thought to herself.
Yet Spyro had been there at that moment to comfort her and make her feel whole and light. She knew that going with cheetahs would not be a good idea for she would be placed back in the same position that she had been found in but this time there would be no rescue for her.
She didn't have Spyro to lean on for advice and so she had to trust her own judgment, something she worried about. Standing by herself she wondered what Spyro would do if he had been in her place. She let out a sigh as she looked down at the forest in front of her knowing it probably be the only place she would be safe. Cynder concentrated on where she wanted to go and proceeded to lower her horns. She knew that she didn't have any elemental breath left within her and would have to rely on her own strength to get her through.
Cynder charged the line in front of her taking down ape and cheetah alike in her burst for freedom. The cheetah's unleashed a flurry of arrows most of which missed her, but she took a good 15 to her body. Despite the pain she felt inside of her she continued to run till she was well out of arrow range and no longer in sight of the apes as she disappeared into the trees. Scarsdale growled in dismay due to the loss of his special prize. As the apes dwindled down to the last 8 men, a new army had just been to descend from the skies. Fearing that it was the dragons, they used their Dreadwings sounds to shoot them down. Unfortunately this group was too skilled to be fooled by this trick and sent a barrage of their own back down knocking the apes flat on their back before tearing into the cheetahs. The claws and teeth shattered the cheetahs knocking them down to a measly 10 before they ran away.
(Author's notes: Its been quite some time before I came back to writing this story. I am sorry for the long wait, but due to writers block I been unable to come up with a good part to the story for Cynder till just about now. I thought it be a nice change of pace to see how these two characters handle things on their own without each other's protection.
I wanted to give the pair a set of different challenges so that Cynder doesn't get captured right away so it adds a bit of elemental twist to the original story. This part of the story picks up after Spyro was thrown in the lake and gives a bit more detail about the apes themselves. Yet now with this new army in place who can they be? What are their intentions?
As for what the next chapter will be about that is currently a mystery. I am so glad that all of you are enjoying the story so far. I hope to write more of these wonderful stories. I am nearing completion with my website project and so I might be able to put chapters out a bit quicker as well. If you like this story please be sure to follow it and write a review about it. I am always happy to answer questions about my story characters.
I also have another story about a group of bunnies which I am still in the process of writing. Its technically not a Spyro story but one of my own creation, maybe I might upload it here sometime in the future. As an author I like to experiment with different environments and stories.
Please feel free to let me know what you think of the story so far.
Also thank you dear readers for taking the time to read my stories.)