Chapter 14: Shocking

Cynder: Welcome back!

Silver: Oh boy here we go again.

Spyro: Don't worry we won't be doing that this time.

Silver: Thank goodness. Now than, who wants to do the honors? Spyro why don't you start us out.

Spyro: (Ahem) Shout out to HolyCross9!

Cynder: For reviewing several times!

Silver: And for giving me an idea for this chapter! Disclaimer time...our favorite. (Sarcasm).

Cynder: Silver doesn't own any of the Spyro characters or story line, only his own OCs and story.

Spyro: And if you don't like the story than just don't read it.

Silvus' POV:

I did not expect the flight across the ocean to be so long. I arrived at the temple safely; which happened to be on the mainland by far off from any civilization.

At least it was actually on the map, unlike Shimmering Shores. Gabriel just marked it with the symbol for light.

After looking around for the temple from the beach, I decided to get an aerial view. Though it didn't really make an improvement. To my left was a huge swam looking place with a river running through it and to my right was...oh, there it is.

Somehow I was able to spot a small doorway. I'm guessing it leads into the temple.

I flew down and landed right in front of this circler door. It had three circles on it, one on the right and the left and one on the top of the door. I walked up to the door expecting it to open up for me. It didn't open.

"Great." I said walking up to the door and attempting to push it open.

Instead of it opening, some strange markings appeared on the door and was glowing red.

"Oh great!" I yelled. "I can't even read." I said at the door.

It looked as the markings glowed mockingly brighter.

"Ugh maybe I can find another entrance." I said taking off again.

Flying around the island would have been relaxing but it was ruined by looking for a door. Maybe there's a window somewhere like at the temple on Shimmering Shores.

A sudden growl scared me out of my thoughts. I stopped in mid air and just hovered there, my wings flapping in a steady motion. I looked around franticly for whatever made that sound. It took another growl for me to realize that came from. Sudden hunger washed over me.

I glanced at the satchel that had my map, the egg book, and the frouta.

"Might as well land." I said to myself.

Landing on this stone platform overlooking the mushroom forest. I took off my white scaled satchel and took out the white fruit. Gabriel told me to conserve the frouta because I may be here awhile so I did just that.

After I was finished I packed everything up again and prepared to take off again. Before I did I took one last look around, good thing I did because I spotted another door that was slightly open.

I don't know how I didn't notice it before but this place I was eating at was a part of the temple. It was a circle balcony with a path in-between two pillars.

I approached the door and noticed it was opened slightly. I was able to push the door open but only a little bit. Just enough so I could fit through.

In the inside was a huge statue of a dragon I did not know. I just stared at the statue in amazement. Eventually I snapped myself out of my trance and walked around the statue for an exit.

I found another door and it opened when I walked up to it. Inside the next room there was a circle thing in the middle of the room. I walked up to it and looked at it. There was this green liquid in it, it was way darker than my scales.

It felt like a mixture of a liquid and a solid when I touched it, sending ripples through it. I looked away from it and looked around the room for any eggs.

There was four doors each the same design as the other doors. On one of the doors happened to have a very faded egg symbol on it. I slowly walked towards it, afraid of what's behind it.

When it opened my face feel instantly. Inside was a long and wide hallway with comfortable looking nests on either sides. In the nests were...broken eggs, with several different designs if pieced back together.

I walked to the first nest and bowed my head.

I took out the book and opened it to the first page. It was an exact replica of the shattered egg but it was whole. At the bottom of it was the hatchlings soon to be name.

Gabriel told me that this book was written and drawn by the Electric Guardian Volteer. It had several enchantments on it. One from the Guardian of Psion, to predict what the gender is going to be and one from the Guardian of time, to predict their future name. Or in this case, what their name was going to be.

Each egg I went through I bowed my head in respect and made a small tear in the page of the book to mark off which ones were...dead.

Each egg I pasted were beautifully designed. Each with its own unique color and element as well.

I finally finished the left row and stopped to take a break. I took off my satchel and set down the book. I was about to take a bite out of one of the fruits until I noticed an empty nest. The fruit dropped out my paws in shock.

It was the first nest in the second row so I could find the egg easily in the book. I gasped audibly at the color of the egg. It was a purple egg.

"So it did survive!" I said excitingly.

I looked down at the book again and tried to read the name but I could not pronounce it. My excitement died down quickly because of all the other shattered eggs around this empty one. I began to wonder why this one survived and the others didn't.

I continued this gloomy task with a slight smile. The knowledge of at least one egg surviving this onslaught cheered me up a bit. But that will soon change.

I dropped the book. I found another empty nest, but that's what made me dropped the book. The picture was a black egg with magenta markings. I recognized the name all too well.

"Cynder..." As soon as I said the name, images of a big black dragon killing my mother ran through my mine...and they would stop coming.

A scream rang in my ears as the entire event kept playing over and over again in my mine. It took me a minute to realize it was my own scream.

I desperately tried to ripped the page out of the book but electricity coursed through my veins when I tried.

I was grateful for the shock because it shocked me back to reality. My heart was beating loudly in my ears and I was breathing franticly.

I looked down at the book again and blasted it with ice but it bounced off and hit the wall. I flipped the page so I wouldn't have to see the egg. I tried to close my eyes but the images of Cynder stabbing my mother with her claws kept coming back.

"Let's just continue." I said to myself.

I finished up as quickly as I possibly could. There was no other empty nests. Only two eggs survived, the purple dragon and my worst enemy.

I ran outside of the temple and found that it was dark outside.

"Maybe I'll just sleep here." I said aloud.

I took off my satchel and set it on the ground. I ate one last time and attempted to sleep. Unfortunately every time I closed my eyes the images came back. I groaned in frustration.

I stood up on all fours then fall back on my hunches. Staring up into the sky and noticing all of the stars and how brightly they shone. The moons were glowing bright as well. It seemed like they were getting closer and closer to each other every night.

"Well since I can't sleep I might as well do something." I said.

Thinking of exploring more of the temple, I walked towards it again. Passing the same statue until I reached the room with the strange pool in it. I approached the door on furthest away. When it opened I instantly changed my mind about exploring this place.

There were several other doors on the other side leading off in different directions. Turning around my gaze fell onto the egg door. An idea formed in my mind.

=0=

I had just finished burying the rest of the egg shells below the baloney. Each in their separate graves. I tried my best to spell out each of the names in the dirt in front of the graves.

Once I finished I bowed my head in respect. There were many graves so it took much of the night away from me.

I flew back to where I was going to sleep before and took out the map in my satchel. I was looking for the symbol of light but I could not find it.

"Where did it go?" I asked to no one. "It's a symbol for light so maybe I have to wait for the sun to rise?"

I shrugged and put the map back and laid down on the hard stone. This time when I closed my eyes the images did not appear.

=0=

When I awakened I was back in the port town of Windig. I was playing around with Rose, Amelia, my new friend Aerio. We were all playing tag. I was currently it and I was chasing Amelia.

"You're never going to catch me!" She said.

"We'll see about that!" I called back.

Right as I was about to touch her tail she side stepped and I tripped right over her paw.

I landed on the ground with an oof. When I got back up I noticed another hatchling in front of me. She looked about three years younger than me. She was black was a magenta underbelly. Her horns were barely poking out the back of her head and she also had strange markings on her forehead.

"Hey." I said. "Want to play tag with us?" I asked her.

"Tag?" She said tilting her head a bit.

"Yeah!" I said excitingly. "It's were someone is 'it' and that person has to 'tag' someone it order to make them 'it'." I explained.

She nodded in understanding.

"Hey guys!" I called. "We have someone else to join us!" I said.

"Oh yes you do little hatchling." I voice said behind me.

I turned around and saw a big black dragon in place of the smaller one. The scene changed around me. My friend's bodies lay around me as well as my sister's and my mother's.

A sharp pain was felt on my chest. Someone had stabbed me.

"You're it!" The dragon yelled in my face, followed by laughter.

=0=

I woke up in a cold sweat. My heart was beating and I was breathing fast. A low throbbing can be felt where I was stabbed in the dream.

I looked around and saw it was morning. I took out the map from my satchel and saw that the light symbol had indeed returned.

I instantly took off flying towards the ocean without even thinking to eat first. All I wanted to do was to get back to Shimmering Shores as fast as possible.

Silver: And here we have it. A bit of a sad chapter with all the eggs and all, but now Silvus knows that Spyro is alive and that Cynder came from the smear batch of eggs.

Spyro: Another thing to notice is that how unstable Silvus is becoming.

Silver: Correct you are Spyro

Silver starts to look around for something.

Silver: Where's Cynder?
Spyro: I don't know.

A low crying can be heard somewhere.

Spyro: I'll find her.

Silver: See you next time.