Chapter 14:
"Spyro! Spyro watch this!" I said with excitement as I use my powers..
To flip over a rock.
I mean to my credit it was a rather heavy rock.
Spyro just grins and shakes his head. " So this is what you've been doing all morning?"
"Well ya basically." I said with a shrug.
" I was hoping to help her build up her magic." Bianca said. "I'd say we've made an improvement. Not a large one no, but an improvement nonetheless."
" To be honest I'm surprised I've even managed to get this far." I said. Still having a magic hold on the rock I flicked my finger, and sent it flying into the pond.
Spyro laughed, "Right well. I was thinking maybe we could meet another old friend of ours, if your up to it."
"Of course." I said dusting myself off. I climb aboard Spyros back, and turn to Bianca. "You coming with us?"
" No, I have other things to take care of, but thank you. Say, how do you feel about doing this again tomorrow morning?" She asked.
"Sure!" I said.
With that she waved her wand she disappeared into a puff of grayish blue smoke.
I felt a sudden jolt as Spyro took off into the air. Once we reached just above the tree's, I asked, "So who are we going to see today?"
"The professor. He might be able to help us fix the portal."
The professor's home was a small hut, with little bits of machinery sticking out of the house and little mechanical odds and ends stren about the front here and there.
Inside the small hut was Elora and a small creature, which looked like a mole with gray thinning hair, Who I assumed was the professor.
They were off to the side of the hut, Elora leaning over the professors shoulder watching as he tinkered with the machine. Elora then looks up at us and smiles. "Spyro, Fayra! Your here! Wonderful!"
The professor looks up as well, adjusting the small set of glasses on his nose. "My, my." He says. " I know I was expecting visitors today but I didn't expect to see you this early."
He walks up to me, " Fayra, it's good to see you again." He then stops and looks up at me, he squints. "Strange, your a lot older than I expected. Tell me, how many years have past since you were last here?"
I was confused. " 17 years..?" I replied.
"You shouldn't be fully mature then. I may not know a lot about humans, but I do know there life spans are around 700 years. You shouldn't be beyond the adolescent stage."
I frowned. " Last I check, humans only live for about 90- 100 years."
He raised a brow. " Really now. Hm. Must have something to do with the lack of magic." He shakes his head, "Anyways. That's not what your here for. I heard that the portal to your home dimension has been broken."
I nod. "Afraid so, but you can fix it, can't you?"
He sighs and looks away. " That's what I'm worried about." He walks over to his desk, spreading out several different blueprints and scattered notes. " I've been looking into it ever since I heard that you had returned, And while I haven't been able to collect as much data as I'd like, since you've only been here for two days. I've come across a.. Road bump."
He picked up a paper with what looked to be a sketch of the portal, the paper was old and crumpled, yellowed by time. " You seen, I have the basic idea as to how the portal is built, what materials we need, you know all that. What I don't have are the coordinates, or more specifically, how to activate it. Your kind tried to make it very hard to reopen the portal."
"But the last time I went through, all I did was touch the portal."
The professor hummed. Resting his hand on his chin as he looked back at me. "Well perhaps that could be a part of it. Needing to be human in order to activate the portal, but it isn't as simple as that. We still need to know how exactly your ancestors made the portal, and the coordinates of your dimension."
"Well then, what's stopping us from finding this information?" Spyro asked.
"Since humans have been gone for so long, most traces of their civilization has disappeared. Books written by humans have either been taken by humans when they left, destroyed, or scattered around the Realms, being bought and sold by collectors and hidden away."
I frowned. My only way back home could be completely destroyed, and even if the information was still out there, it's be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
"Well that isn't going to stop us, now it is?" Spyro said. I looked at him, confused. "Look it'll be hard, searching for the information we need, but I'm sure we'll find it."
"Ya. I'm sure many of the creatures in Avalar would be willing to help us look for the blueprints." Elora chipped in.
I smiled. Seeing them so willing to help sparked a little bit of hope in me. "Alright." I said. " I mean what other choice do we have? Where should be start first?"
"How about the castle library, there must be something there."