Chapter 26: One after another
Silver: Welcome all to chapter 26 of the Forgotten Legend. I'm finally out of school! YAY! Summer is here! As well as better chapters! Anyways it's time for some good old disclaimers! I don't own any of the Spyro characters or story line, only my own OCs and story. Also! If you don't like the story then just click on the x in the corner!
Silvus' POV:
If it wasn't for the glow of Kafto then the forest would be as dark as it was during the day. The forest was dark outside our circle of orange light. Not a ray of sunshine made it through the thick leaves. If I wasn't with Kafto than I could have gotten lost in the large forest.
"How big is this place." I asked Kafto. My reasoning behind this question was the fact that almost as soon as we hit the mainland we hit this very forest and flew over it ever since. Except now….when I..ya know...broke Kafto's wing.
"Almost as big as Dante's Freezer." Kafto said. Holy land thats big.
"Wow that's big." I said amazed.
"Yes that's very big." He agreed. "Would have been much easier if we could fly over it but…." He said smirking.
I let out a nervous laugh at that. "Yeah…." I said scratching the back of my head.
Kafto stop moving forward and met my gaze. I guess he saw the guilt in my eyes because his grin grew bigger. "I'm only joking Silvus, I know it was an accident but what happened happened and there's nothing we can do to change it."
"Wise words from a messenger." I said attempting to make a joke. At that Kafto let out a snort and from then on we were silent with grins plastered across our faces.
Within our circle of a soft orange light there seemed to be a path of dirt. I don't know how I didn't notice this before. On either side of the path was a line of grass. Nothing was blocking the path, no trees, no root, no grass, no nothing.
"A path? How long have we been on this?" I asked.
"After the sun rose. This path was made by nature dragons. Their village is the opposite way. The village Blatt." Kafto said.
The conversation was held as we walked through the dark forest. Step after step we took with no light other than Kafto's.
"How do you know all this." I asked. My curiosity is peaked in his knowledge.
"My knowledge comes from Ignitus. All messengers are taught in the knowledge of the realms. That is why we don't need maps. Because us messengers are live maps." Kafto explained as we walked. "We do more then just bring messages, we are also trained in combat so that we are almost as skilled as the Guardians themselves."
"How many of you are there?" I asked, my questions unending.
"There are as many of us as there is Guardians." He said.
"So...15?" I said.
"Kind of." He said, nothing else was said after that answer. Though it still left me curious to how many there actually is. There are 16 known elements but only 15 known Guardians. But some of them are dead.
As I was lost in my thoughts we came upon a huge clearing the path continuing straight ahead, I didn't even notice that Kafto stop until I was a few paces in front of him. Looking up I noticed that the sun was nearly right above us.
This clearing was bigger than I thought. It was the shape of an ovel the longer sides spreading out to my left and right. At the edges of the clearing the trees were much shorter so I was able to see just a bit of the horizon.
"We will rest a bit here." Kafto said approaching me from behind. I immediately fell to the ground because we were walking so long. My paws were aching and so was my stomach.
I began to study the surrounding area. Most of what I saw was green but I spotted the occasional patch of flowers. Most of them being purple.
As I was looking around on the ground, Kafto was looking towards the sky. Like he was searching for something. Then he suddenly stood up from where he was.
I looked in the direction that he was and saw a speck in the sky moving towards the clearing. As the speck grew closer Kafto decided to shoot a fireball straight up. Even as it grew nearer I could not tell what the speck was.
"Why did you do that?" I asked.
"That is a dragon approaching and signaled them to come here and meet with us." Kafto said.
"How do you know they'll come?" I asked.
"I don't." He responded.
"Then why-" I began before I was cut off.
"It could be possible that it is another messenger or Guardian. But even if it's just another dragon they still need to be warned that the islands surrounding Dante's Freezer have fallen." Kafto said.
As the speck grew closer I saw that it most definitely was a dragon. An electric dragon to be precise. They had a dark blue underbelly and the rest was yellow. His horns curved back then slightly up at the tips and they also were blue.
The great dragon soon reached the middle of the clearing and landed in front of us and approached us quickly as if he was in a hurry.
"Volteer!" Kafto called bowing. Wait where have a heard that name before? Oh! Volteer! The Guardian of electricity!
"How magnificent glories amazing it is to see you young fire messenger! I knew it was you when you exhaled the stupendous fire show it my field of view! A-a-amazing!" Never have I heard someone talk so fast or so much. Soon after his outburst of excitement he saw me sitting on my hunches next to Kafto.
"And who might you be y-y-young dragon! A friend acquaintance associate companion? Or perhaps a family member cousin son nephew? Either way you have such a young friend let me guess seven in three days? HA, amazing to see someone so young, rarely so whelpings anymore, I-" Volteer was thankfully cut off by Kafto.
"Right!" Kafto said stopping Volteer from saying anymore. "He is a friend of mine. He knows Gabriel."
Volteer looked visibly surprised by this comment of me knowing Gabriel.
"That is truly amazing! It's rare that anyone knows of Gabriel! Even some of the Guardians don't know of him! Much less a whelp. Anyways what are you doing out here!" How does one not take breaths while talking a lot, I don't know.
"We are on our way to Warfang. We are meeting up with Ignitus and we also regret to inform that Dante's Freezer, as well as the surrounding islands, have fallen to the apes." Kafto said. Volteer looked socked as well as sadden by this.
"Did Cyril make it out?" Volteer asked the question so fast that I almost didn't catch what he even asked.
"Yes Cyril as well as many citizens of Frieren made it out alright." Kafto said. Volteer gave a breath of relief that his fellow Guardian survived the attack.
"The is absolutely good news indeed but I'm afraid do not have good news to bare. Concurrent Skies has fallen to the apes as well. With the aid of the black d-d-dragoness Cynder. Oh what a demon she is to betray her kind like that!" Volteer almost made me scream at the mention of Cynder. She is still alive? No not possible?
"How long ago did this happen?" Kafto asked. Who cares how long ago this was! Cynder is still alive and I need to kill her!
"About three weeks ago when I was doing my normal check up on the place! I should have saw it coming! That place is a dark one filled with electricity!" Volteer responded.
"Cynder is dead." I said interrupting what Kafto was going to say.
"Excuse me?" Volteer said lost for words.
"Silvus speaks the truth. We saw her go down at the paws of the ice dragons." Kafto said speaking for me.
"That is good news indeed. Now my boy I have a task for you!" Volteer said motioning to Kafto. I wonder how old he is? He never told me.
"I'm listening Master Volteer." Kafto said.
"Report what I have told you to Ignitus! I must check up upon my village! The inhabitants always await my return after I am gone! I-I-I must return as soon as possible!" Volteer said far too quickly for me.
"It will be done sir." Kafto said bowing.
"Perfect splendid stupendous! Thank you my boy! Now I must be off!" Volteer said bowing to both of us. We returned the gesture. "So long Kafto and Silvus!"
At that Volteer took off back the way he came and soon flew out of sight.
"That was.." I was speechless by Volteer's...speech.
"Unexpected?" Kafto offered.
"Yeah...something like that." I said.
I continued to sit on my hunches thinking about what just occurred. I dearly hope not all electric dragons aren't like that. If so then I'm staying as far away as possible from their village.
Kafto, who was also sitting down, suddenly started to walk forward without any warning. Then he crouched down and slowly edged forward. Then..he pounched.
Next thing I knew something was thrown in my direction and landed right in front of me. A bloody ball of something is what it was. I poked it not understanding what to do with it.
"You're going to have to eat it raw." Kafto said walking back towards me. Whenever we caught something we cooked over the fire to make it taste just a bit better.
With a growling stomach I immediately took a bite out of the dead animal. I was immediately greeted with an amazing taste. The meat was devoured quickly and soon all that was left was bones and were easily broken.
"Let's get moving."
Soon enough we were back in the darkness in the forest only to be lite by Kafto's glow. Silence greeted us and I was thankful for it. I wasn't in the mood for talk after Volteer. But it seems that Kafto didn't feel the same.
"So." He started. "I told you about my past. Now what about yours?" I was immediately discouraged by this question. My past is something that I didn't want to be reminded of. Every time I think about it I get a headache.
"I lived a happy life for six years." I started somberly. "Three at my birthplace and three at the village of Windig. End the end of those last three years my village was attacked and destroyed. End of story." Though I ended my story Kafto didn't seem satisfied. As we continued walking through this dark forest he bombarded me with questions, as I did him.
"How long ago was that?" He asked. Though I wasn't' the best with time I had a relatively good idea how long ago it was. I was six and a half at the time and now I'll be seven in a few days.
"About a half a year ago." I said grumpily.
"And you're almost seven right?" He asked.
"Yeah." My response short.
"What about your parents." He asked a quite a question that would have made me yell. But that would make me a hypocrite. I asked him about his parents and he has the right to ask about mine.
With a sigh I answered. "I..watched my mom died." I said not saying anymore.
Kafto stopped immediately and looked at me with concern. I inwardly smiled at his concern, I was rarely showed any. Then again the only one that knows of my story is Gabriel.
"I'm...sorry." He said and then started forward again.
"I don't know what happened to my father and sister, they ran towards the forest." I said hardly acknowledging him. "The Guardian of wind left just a day before the attack. He said there was a Guardian assembly."
Kafto let out an annoyed sigh.
"There hasn't been a Guardian assembly in four years." Kafto said. That doesn't make sense, does that mean that Hadriel lied? But why? "I know Hadriel all too well..he has a tendency of not telling the truth as well as most of the wind dragons in Windig. Tell me Silvus, how many wind dragons were there when the attack came." I was very confused by this question.
"At least half of them were gone. Only my family and a few others were left." I looked at Kafto's face to see what his reaction would be. His frown only deepened.
"I thought so." Was all he said.
"What?" I said,
"They knew the attack was coming." Kafto said. My eyes widened in realization. They didn't warn us. Only some were told and only those escaped while others were left behind for their doom.
Soon we reached the edge of the forest and in the distance we saw a village, the village was alite by flames. An army surrounded the village outside of the forest.
"If Hadriel told the Guardians of the attacks then this could have been prevented." Kafto said.
With wide eyes I asked. "What village is that?"
"The village of Earth, Erde." Kafto answered. How many is that now? Wind, fire, ice, and now earth? Each are falling one after another. "Hadriel will be disbanded for this." Kafto said, anger in his voice. "If word gets out that he kept this a secret than a civil war may start between elemental villages. We can't afford that during this war."
Kafto suddenly turned to me with fire in his eyes.
"Swear to me that you will keep this a secret!" He said forcefully.
"What?" I said caught off guard.
"Swear it for the sake of the Realms and the unity of dragon kind!" He said.
"I swear I won't tell anyone." I said a little scared. Kafto closed his eyes with a sigh and turned away to stare at the destruction of the village. Even from this far away we could hear the screams.
"I'm sorry." He said. "This war has gone on before I was even born, before many of the Guardians were even born! We can't afford a war between ourselves." Kafto said wisely and began to move forward once again. "Come.. we are almost to Warfang."
With one last glance at the village I turned to follow. Kafto's words echoing in my head.
Silver: Well that was a bit of a crazy ending! A little backstory with the villages; obviously they don't like each other and there is tension between all of them and only the Guardians unite them. But maybe not all the Guardians are united? A little bit of that is shown with Hadriel and his lying about the assembly.
Also! War! That has been going on for awhile! That's kind of obvious if you know of the LOS story of Malefor and everything.
Also again! Volteer! I'm not very good with his words so I tried my best with that part.
Anyways enough of my rambling! I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. Leave a review if you did and leave one if you didn't! See ya next week!