Chapter 3: Things get bad.
(Spyro)
It was impossible. We all had watched as Emily died from the hole in her chest and Kyle from being crushed by falling rocks in a cave. It didn't make sense to me at all.
I just looked at the two people standing in the front room of our friends home. "They may look like Kyle and Emily but there scent is way off from theres." Cynder said in my ear.
"What do you mean by that." I asked. "I mean they may be pretending to be River's friends from the past. I really don't think they are who they saw they are." Cynder said.
I then thought back to what Crunch and Storm said before River had returned. They had given up on there human lives and there human forms vanished permanently. I then eyed the characters with growing suspicion.
"How are you guys even alive." River said. They looked at him with growing confusion. "What are you talking about." Emily said. I could then tell it wasn't them. River may not have noticed but her voice was a little different from Storm's.
Meaning that she was indeed a fake. Something was going on that I didn't like. And I had a feeling that something was also about to happen that we would need to watch for.
I eyed them closely waiting for them to make the wrong move. "You may be right Cynder they don't sound the same." I said. Then Flame cut in. "If you guys haven't noticed River doesn't really sound the same either." Flame said.
And now that he brought it up he was right. In fact we all sounded a little different. "I guess being human tends to change just more then ones look." I said. I guess we could be wrong about.
(River)
"What do you mean what am I talking about. I saw you both die in the dragon realms." I said. "River you feeling ok. Because your not making any sense." Kyle said.
I just starred at them in shock. "I am fine but I am just a little confused is all." I said. "Well then try and get unconfused. Honestly River if we were dead we would literally be the first ones to know." Emily said.
I sighed. "Yeah sorry. I have just been having a rather strange months." I said. "Yeah about that were have you been. You've been gone a very long time. Not one from school has even seen you." Kyle said.
"Oh he was helping is with something back at our home." Spyro said. My friends looked behind me as if noticing the others for the first time. "And who are these people." Emily said.
"Well that is Flame, Cynder, And Spyro." I said. They both looked at me for a moment. "Really. You gave them video game character names." Kyle said. "Hey I could just as easily call you two Storm and Crunch." I said.
"And besides those are our real names." Cynder spoke. I could tell she was getting angry. "And speaking of which. Have you see the news lately. Its been buzzing about ships and planes disappearing and strange creatures arriving in our country." Emily said.
I looked at Spyro and the others. I was glad I came back because this was something I feared happening. "Looks like Malefor has been busy indeed." I said to Spyro and the others.
"He must really be trying to prepare for the final step in his plan." Cynder said. I nodded. "And what ever it is I don't like it." I said. "Hey every one come look at the TV." Mom screamed.
We all ran in to see a news broadcast. "GAINT DRAGONS RAMPAGING IN TOWN" Was the head line. I looked at the others and nodded. I knew coming back was a smart idea. "Flame stay here and watch over my mom." I said. He nodded.
We left the house in a hurry. "Ok there is only two of them so this should be easy." I said. "Yeah. I just don't like that they are attacking your home." Spyro said. "Malefor probably knows he can't take my worlds militaries and us on at the same time." I said.
Cynder and Spyro looked at me confused. "I'll explain later." I said. We went into the forest and took off the necklaces. Once we were back in our dragon we took to the sky.
How are we going to change back with out being spotted." Spyro said. "I don't know but we will find out." I said. WE flew straight to the town were the dragons were rampaging.
"Looks like these guys are going to be easy." Cynder said. "Alright lets go." Spyro said. And being him and all he dived down and shot a fire ball at the first while Cynder tackled the other. I dive bombed the same one as spyro and blew a fire ball as well.
It got up and it looked made. It then came at us like we made it mad. Spyro just dived bombed him again and used his tail to hit the other and make him fall to the ground.
I looked at Cynder and she had gone with ground fighting. And by the looks of things she was winning. Her opponent had a gash on his leg a cut on his chest one of the wings looked broke and its eye was closed and looked like it was bleeding.
I looked back at our foe and I went in after it fell and I landed a head but smashing it into the ground hard. I got up to see that I had done a lot of damage with that attack. I got up and Spyro came in blowing Ice over it covering it up.
As we flew up there was a flash on it and when we looked back down the dragon was gone and a human was there unconscious. "I knew that Malefor was behind this." I said.
"Yep no one else has the power to do that to humans besides him." Spyro said. We flew over to were Cynder was only to see she had finished her's off as well. "Took you long enough." She said.
I just had to laugh. "Alright lets get out of here." I said. We went into the sky again and found the forest by my house again. I picked the necklace of my claw and placed it around my neck.
Spyro and Cynder did the same. But after we turned human we got a surprise. "NO WAY!" We heard a voice say. We turned to see 3 little kids staring at us. I looked at Spyro.
"I think we just blew our secret on the first day." I said. He nodded. "I don't think we can explain this to them as an illusion." Spyro said. I laughed. But then I looked at the kids.
Something told me we were about to have the longest visit of our lives to my world then expected.