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Chapter 2: New Sights
Glancing around, I quickly took note of my surroundings. Tall, broad trees surrounded the clearing with branches completely filled with bright, green leaves. A hard ground under my feet with indentions from stones dislodged from the dirt or from animal footprints. A clear, blue sky above pale with the light of dawn.
All in all, a pretty peaceful setting. But I couldn't focus on that for long. I have to get moving. My eyes immediately found the two unconscious Skylanders and my pale hands reached out and shook Spyro, trying to get him awake. His violet eyelids slid open and blinked several times, attempting to clear his eyesight and see clearly again.
He dragged himself to his feet before stretching his wings out and shaking them to get the feeling back in them.
"Jenni, where are we?" He asked after folding his wings against his side. "Everything feels...different."
"I don't know," I murmured, brushing my golden brown hair out of my face. "and I don't know how we find out."
Sighing, he clawed the ground, his long, silver claws leaving gouges in the dirt.
"There...there has to be a library somewhere, right? We could find out there."
"You're right." I stared around at the clearing again. "I need to leave this place and find a town or village. The people there will help me figure this mess out." A loud snore brought my attention back to Sunburn, his orange and yellow tail twitching in his sleep. "Will you stay here until Sunburn is awake?"
"Of course."
Pushing through low hanging branches and bushes that scraped and tore at my royal blue cloak, I made my way though the forest.
"Man, what's with these trees? There weren't any trees like these in Skylands. They were a-"
That thought immediately came to a screeching halt when I finally pulled myself out of the forest, my eyes widening in sheer astonishment.
It wasn't a town or village. It wasn't anything that I've ever seen. Tall buildings made entirely out of glass, made out of stone. Buildings that looked like they could touch the sky. The...the...I have no idea what to call it. It was too big to look for a library. Too big for to look for anything I can think of.
"Spyro, we have a problem."
My dragon hide boots came to a stop in front of Spyro, who was sitting in front of Sunburn and talking.
"What is it?" Sunburn rasped, the blue feathers above his eyes raising.
"It would be better if you saw."
After showing them the...thing, the two Skylanders wore faces of disbelief.
"We're not going to find anything in that mess! Much less a library!" Spyro yelled in frustration.
"That's not the only problem." The hybrid growled.
"What else could there be?" I sighed in exasperation.
Sunburn raised a clawed foot and pointed over to a long stretch of grey stone where strange machines raced across.
"Spyro," Sunburn continued. "can you sense any magic from those things?"
The purple dragon's eyes slid shut for one second before they snapped right back open.
"Now that I'm focusing on it, no, there isn't magic in those things, there isn't even magic here in this world." He mumbled
"Glumshanks, tell me what you see here."
The tall troll peered into the portal his short master had conjured. At first, he didn't spot anything until he saw an orange and yellow Skylander quickly zooming away from the fight. And when he looked closer, Glumshanks could make out a purple dragon carrying a human girl away.
"I see a, uh, human." Glumshanks said lamely.
"Not just any human," Kaos growled, something the troll was unfamiliar with. "a human with magic."
The portal suddenly rippled, and instead of seeing a pale girl with golden brown hair, he saw light gray, chartreuse, and then gold shimmering around an outline of her.
"What do you want to do about her, sir?" The troll asked a little nervously, his green ears drooping slightly.
"Find her and get rid of her. If she comes back, I won't be able to take over Skylands. My plan will be ruined, understand, Glumshanks?"
"Yes, sir." The troll mumbled as Kaos disappeared from the room.
Something had happened to Kaos during that explosion, Glumshanks was sure of that. The man had become more clever, more menacing. He actually knew what he was doing and planned everything out.
Whoever that girl is, the troll hoped that Kaos didn't find her, for the fear of what his new master would do to her.
We decided to go to that strange place anyway, but not before Spyro use some of his magic to shrink himself and Sunburn till they looked like tiny lizards with wings. I wasn't sure how people in that area would react so I decided to leave my cloak in the forest, to try and blend in as much as possible.
I was still out of place.
Everywhere I looked, there were people wearing suits and hurrying along the stone walkways, shooting me strange looks as they passed. I can't really blame them. I was covered in dirt and my clothes were torn, my hair was in knots and came to my waist. Also, children were with adults.
They just stared at me until their mother or father would pull them away, quickly muttering to them before they disappeared into the crowd.
And the noise.
There was too much noise. Everything was really quiet in Skylands so compared to this place, it feels like my eardrums will burst.
"Jenni," Spyro's tiny, purple body clambered onto my shoulder. "calm down. Don't panic."
"But everything is so strange." I quickly whispered to him. "I don't know where I'm going. I don't know where everything is."
"You'll learn." Sunburn put in, climbing onto my other shoulder. "You'll find where we need to go."
"How? Everytime I try to ask for help everyone rushes away. They don't want to help me."
The two Skylanders didn't say anything after that. They remained silent for the rest of the day until the sun began to set.
"We have to go back," Spyro yawned. "We can't do anything else for today."
"There's a, uh, small problem with that." I mumbled. "I'm lost. I don't know how to get back."
Two panicked sets of eyes stared at me unitl I shook my head at them. We could get through this. We could stay in this place until morning came.
"L-let's go in here." I stuttered, shuffling into a narrow hallish like area that's filled with trash. "It's not ideal. But it's better than wandering around during the night."
They didn't speak, they only helped me move trash to the far side of the hall till I deemed it good enough to sleep on the stone. The Skylanders curled up next to each other, to keep themselves warm, while I wish I had taken my cloak with me. My hands worked frantically to keep my arms warm from the chill in the air.
"Maybe tomorrow...maybe tomorrow will be a better day." I thought to myself before drifting off.
Author's Note:
Finally got this done! Thank you so much for that one person who favorited/followed this story and thank you to the two people who reviewed as well! I'll get started on the next chapter super soon and hopefully post it next week!
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