Yeaaah...chapter two. Tell me how you like it!
"What! What is it? Danger?" Spyro yelled as he pushed through the tough ferns, getting tangled in more than twice and having to burn them clear. For such dried up plants, they sure are tough! How Cynder got through here, I don't know!
"No, nothing dangerous as far as I'm concerned. But you just won't believe it! Hurry up!" she cried.
Though it was difficult, Spyro managed to wedge through the small gap Cynder had created, and met up with her on the other side, a light blue bundle wrapped up into her chest. Spyro inched closer cautiously, wondering what the heck was that thing in her arms.
"Aww. It's a mini you, Spyro! Well, except that it's blue, has a facial features of a lamb, and has ram like horns!" Sparx observed, coming in closer with every detail. "As far as I'm concerned, it looks much more cuter than you two monsters. Ha ha ha!"
"Yeah yeah, keep laughing away, Sparx!" growled Cynder. "It's not like you're that gorgeous anyway!"
"Can you two just quit fighting and move already? I can see the ending of the ravine at least a few more feet from us," said Spyro, turning towards the sandy wall. "And the winds picking up fast."
"Wait, wasn't the ravine farther from us than a few feet?" thought Cynder aloud.
At once, all of them swiftly jumped over the ferns, turned and stared at the wall. Sure enough, it was creeping towards them, bit by bit, the wind only encouraging it's movements.
"Cynder," choked Spyro over the dust. "can you fly up and look over the wall? Maybe it's just a trap wall. There could be land on the other side."
"Sure thing, Spyro! Just hold Satyr for a moment!" she yelled, carefully handing him the dragon chick, whom Spyro hugged to his chest. She spread her wings and jumped into the air, allowing the current to pull her up. Just beyond the moving wall was, literally, nothing. Just a black void, clouds tainted with scarlet swirling into an endless pit at the very bottom. Cynder began to feel very uncomfortable floating just seconds from endless death below her very toes, and she gave an exasperated sigh. Never comes easy for a dragoness...
She flew with the breeze that was now picking up, and back to the other side of the wall. She could see Sparx and Spyro walking comfortably in front of the moving death trap. She knew what was gonna happen. In minutes, if the wall's inner column built up enough friction, it would move twelve times as fast. It would then close the portal, create another wall with it's energy and collide itself with another. A certain death trap. Swooping low, she managed to land gracefully in front of the three.
"You guys, we gotta move."
"Why", questioned Sparx. "No land on the other side?"
"Worse", continued Cynder. "An endless black pit."
"Then let's run!" amended Spyro, and he started for the portal, the chick tucked under the folds of his wing which created a kind of cradle for it. They ran as fast as they could, but the roaring wind changed it's direction, pushing them back every ten paces once they'd made two. Finally, Cynder had had enough. She stood erect, puffed up her chest to the max, and let out a blast of her wind breath, holding it off. And they continued to run, Cynder all the while keeping the rushing current above their heads.
All of a sudden, when they were only one and a half yards away from the portal, a judder sounded through the atmosphere followed by a rumbling quake which caused the young dragons to stumble off their paws. The wind ceased, all was still. The baby chick quivered beneath Spyro's wing, letting out a shrill cry lasting only a second. Cynder looked back, and almost screamed herself. There was the wall, appearing to be a mile away, but moving ever quicker. She looked ahead and gave a whimper when she saw another wall forming.
"Spyro! Get up! NOW! Or you'll get squashed!" she shrieked.
Lifting his head, and groaning when it hurt, he saw what was gonna happen. He snatched Sparx out of the air in his paw and placed him on his nose. Sparx, for once, did not complain but only held on tighter. With a firm hold on the baby, he dashed for the portal with Cynder hot on his heels. Jumping through the portal, they zoomed back to the palace, and got spat out right into the wall of Cynder's room.
"Home sweet home!" cried Sparx as he hugged one of the pillows lying around.
"Cool", breathed Cynder. "Hey, check this out, you guys!"
Just as soon as the portal had disappeared, a miniature, virtual map of the Dragon Realms appeared in front of Cynder's snout.
"What is it ?" breathed Spyro. "A map? But how?"
"I don't know." said Cynder.
"Hey! Look! An unknown planet!" she shouted, pointing to an orange-reddish sphere. As soon as the tip of her claw pricked it, the map miniaturized itself even more to the size of a stack of 100 papers and a large portal appeared, again. This time, it was a straight through portal, like the 'walk over the line and you're there' type. A large gangly figure with elongated arms, over-sized paws and claws and no eyes approached the portal with a leader like stance. It opened it's jaws, roared, reared, and when Cynder, Spyro, and Sparx wouldn't stop gawking at it, charged forwards, roaring all the while.
"Aaaaaaaaaah!" screamed Sparx, turning to flee and slamming his face straight into the wall. The creature stopped at the very edge of the portal. But it's not like it had a choice. It more like rammed into an invisible wall. Cynder and Spyro were rooted to the spot. The animal leveled it's head with the two dragon's faces and gave an ear piercing roar. The two dragons flinched back when the scream and the putrid stench of it's breath reached them.
Cynder reached up and clicked another area, and the monster disappeared. The next picture that came up was that of Convexity itself. But more peaceful than it had been last time Spyro visited it. He was about to touch another when the map and portal disappeared. It was out of time.
Spyro gave a sigh, reached over, and carefully pulled out the baby from his wing. He turned to Cynder.
"So, Satyr, huh?"