Chapter two

It felt as if he drank a whole cup of coffee at 100 degrees. His mouth burned and the ashes just made it worse. Sparky watched his brother, his jaw open. Rys vomited ash again, "Oh my god it burns" he said.

Sparky looked at Corey. Most of his body scorched as he lay motionless on the floor. "We need to get out of here fast" he said. "We need to call nine one one."

"And say what?" Rys said. "That he got burned because I vomited fire somehow?" He couldn't believe what he had said. Vomited fire? He was going to an asylum for sure. No one would've believed him, heck even he didn't believe it himself. Sparky turned to look if anybody had heard them. No one had come out yet. Thankfully those were some good news, despite everything.

"There's a reasonable explanation" Sparky said. "Okay no one heard us uh let's just get out. Let's put these guys by the driveway on a bush somewhere and let's go. Everyone will think they got hammered."

Rys just nodded at the suggestion between breaths. Sparky started to pull Corey aside. Rys came to his aid and helped him carry Corey to the side of the driveway beside some bushes. They did the same with the other three guys. It took them a whole seven minutes to do that. Thankful to the ancestors not a single soul came out. They ran to their car and quickly drove off. The gate opened automatically as Sparky sped like he was on the freeway. "What was that Rys? What happened?"

"I don't know man I-" he said while trying to clean his mouth with his hands. Ashes had stopped to come out of it. His mouth was returning to normal, it wasn't burning anymore. "What's that black thing coming out of your mouth? What's going on?"

Then those words came to his head. You'll know after it happens the librarian had said. He sat up straight, "We need to go to the library."

"What?" Sparky said. "Fire comes out of your mouth and you wanna read a book?"

"No" he said. "We're gonna go see the librarian. He might have some answers for us, for me."

"The librarian dude?" Sparky said between heavy breaths.

"Sparky stay calm" Rys said. "I'm trying to process this too."

Sparky pulled over by the side of the road. He got out of it and walked towards some trees along a river bank. Rys watched him just stand there. He put his arms in the air several times. Rys sighed and closed his eyes.

Two seconds later he opened them again. He found himself among a circle of trees. The sky didn't have any stars, just the glowing moon illuminating his vision path just enough for him to notice the trees. Total darkness bloomed from beyond the circle of trees. He looked down, he saw he didn't have any arms but instead they were replaced by four paws with claws. His skin was purple. Then he noticed the wings on his back. "What?" He felt a lot more conscious now than he did before.

"Don't be afraid little one" a voice said from the air.

"What's going on? Where am I? What am I?" he said as he looked at himself while standing on his hind legs.

"I think you already know" the voice said. "Your powers have begun to awaken. It is time for you to break this darkened curse from us all and return us home."

"Powers? Curse? What are you talking about?" the purple dragon said. "Who are you?"

"I must go" the voice said. "Go see the librarian. He will have some answers for you."

The purple dragon tried to say something when his eyes opened once again. He felt a hand slowly patting his shoulder. "Dude wake up" Sparky said. Rys jumped. "Whoa hey it seemed like you were having a nightmare bro. You were asleep for about half an hour."

"Half an hour?" Rys said.

"Yeah we're already here" he pointed to the school.

"Wait weren't you screaming your lungs out at a river?"

"I needed that scream" he said. "But no. I came back and you were snoring. You snore like a lion by the way, now I remember why we have separate rooms."

"Sparky" Rys looked at Sparky.

"So yeah now I feel better and more in tune with processing stuff" he said. "Let's go talk to that librarian and see what he knows."

Rys couldn't help but smile. Sparky got out of the car. Rys did the same. The duo left their car and walked towards an entrance by the side of the school. It was an entrance few people knew about. Most notably teachers. It was a broken fence kids used to escape school during class hours. They pushed it open. Rys went in first as Sparky held it open "Ah the days where we would just go to the beach and ditch school."

"Thanks Sparky. Wait what? You ditched school?"

Sparky went in and closed the fence behind him, "Uh yeah I'll tell you later bro." The side entrance to the library stood before them. Rys and Sparky ran to it. "So should we knock?" Rys tried the door. It pushed itself open. They both looked at each other. Then Rys went inside. Sparky followed him with his eyes, "I guess not" and he quickly followed.

The library was dark. A handful of candles lit the room. "Um Mr. Librarian?" Rys called. He realized that he had never asked the librarian's name. The only person he liked in school and he didn't even bother to ask his name or worse he did and forgot about it.

"It feels like there's no one here bro" Sparky said.

"He's got to be here" Rys said. "He told me to meet him here tonight. He told me that he knew what would happen."

"He knew what would happen?" Sparky turned around to meet Rys's gaze. "You're telling me the librarian knew what would happen to you? That you would breathe fire?"

"I don't know" Rys said. "It didn't make any sense at the time but now…" a loud thump came from one of the rooms upstairs. They both looked up and then at each other.

"What was that?" Sparky said.

Rys gulped and walked slowly towards the stairs. Another loud thump. This one came from beneath the floor. Sparky looked down. He walked towards Rys by the stairs in a hurry. They both breathed hard. "Rys?" a voice whispered.

"What Sparky?"

"I didn't say anything" Sparky said.

"Didn't you just call me?"

"Rys" the voice whispered again.

They both looked at each other. Then Rys noticed a face behind one of the statues in a corner. "Is that you mr. Librarian?"

The librarian signaled him to come with his hands.

"Is that him?" Sparky said.

"Yeah come on" Rys said. They both walked over to the statue. "Mr. Librarian what are you doing here?"

He shushed them and directed them with his hand to go through a tunnel within the statue. They hesitated but did as he told them. The librarian followed last, closing the latch behind him making the statue whole again. They appeared in what looked to be an office. It had no windows nor any other doors except the one they used. The librarian hurriedly went to his desk. "Um what's going on?" Rys asked.

"Listen Rys" the librarian said as he put several books on the desk. "Something I should get out of the way first before I explain anything."

"Rys I'm getting a bad feeling about this" Sparky said.

"Something you both should know" the librarian continued. "Rys. That isn't your real name. You come from a distant land called the Dragon Realms."

"What?" Rys said, his face one of deep confusion.

"Okay mister what did you have for drink today?" Sparky said.

"Typical of you to say that Sparx" the librarian said.

"Sparx?" Sparky tilted his head.

"Yes and you Rys" the librarian continued. "Rys Po Gonard. You breathed fire tonight. You breathed fire because you are a dragon. But not any dragon my dear friend." The librarian put his hands on the desk and looked directly at Rys, their eyes locked in time and space. "Your name, your real name…" Rys gasped. "Is Spyro."

This chapter was shorter than the last one but I felt that it needed to end there. Next chapter will be uploaded soon. Hope you're liking the story so far. Any opinions or reviews are welcome, I'm always looking to improve my writing. Thanks.