Chapter 2 - The Mysterious Portal

Chapter Two: The Mysterious Portal[/u]

One bright sunny afternoon, in the green, heather-topped hills of the highlands of Scotland and a group of pupils lead by a middle-aged looking man, are seen following a crumbly path of gravel up to an old fortress at the top of the hill. Then a young, girl, with long blonde hair tied in a ponytail, about preteen spoke up to from the crowd of youngsters,

“Mr Mitchell, isn’t that an Osprey just over there?” the girl asked as she points to a large bird, flying over the distant hills.

“Uh-huh, that’s an Osprey all right” Replied Mr Mitchell. Mr Mitchell then stops at the fortress,

“Ok class, we can all have our lunch here and we’ll all move back down the other side in about half an hour, ok?”


The class then sit down on the grass and begin to eat their lunch. After some people finished eating, two boys went to take a look at the small castle,

“Hey, let’s go take a look in here! Cyra, you comin’?” Called a young boy with blonde hair at the opening where the door threshold used to be.

“Oh, ok. But mind we have to go back in fifteen minutes” replied the young girl with blonde hair. Cyra then followed the boys into the small castle to find a large, empty, damp, dark room with damp, crumbling walls, sprays of sunlight hit the ground, coming from the many cracks in the walls. The boys’ faces fell,

“ What a dump. C’mon let’s go.” Spoke up the second boy with brown hair. The boys then begin to move back outside, when Cyra noticed a strange archway beside the floor of the castle. Cyra move closer to the archway, which had a dragon on each side, breathing fire, looking up the blue gemstone at the top.

“Hey, guys, C’mere! Look at this!” Cyra called to the boys. Cyra and the boys then gather around the strange archway

“Wow! What is it?” Called the first boy,

“I don’t know, just some kind of strange arch. I’ve never seen anything like it.” Replied Cyra as she examined the arch “Hey! Look! There’s writing on the back!” Cyra called out.

“Cool! What does it say?” replied the boys as they came closer,

“I don’t know. It’s in a different language but it’s the same kinda writing that’s on the back of my amulet. Look.” Cyra held up a little golden, circular amulet, with a ruby dragon in the middle and revealed some writing on the back that was remarkably similar to the writing on the archway.

“Weird…” Whispered second boy, but as Cyra touched the writing on the arch, the archway came to life and void, with a scenery of rolling hills, of greenery and blue skies shimmered in the middle of the archway.

“What the he--!?” Cried the first boy,

“What in the world is that thing?” cried the second boy. Cyra and the boys were absolutely astonished,

“Guys this is not just an archway…it’s a portal” said Cyra in awe. The first boy then noticed that Cyra’s golden amulet, bearing a ruby dragon was floating towards the portal,

“Cyra, you’re amulet!” Called the first boy. Cyra then looked down and saw her amulet float towards the portal, Cyra then tried to move away from the portal, but she was frozen to the spot,

“Guys, I can’t move!” Panicked Cyra

“What do you mean you can’t move?” asked the second boy

“I mean I can’t move, I’m frozen to the spot!” Yelled Cyra. Then Cyra suddenly started to get pulled towards the portal “Guys help me!” Yelled Cyra as she panicked. The boys then did their best to hold onto Cyra but then the force of the portal pulled her from their grip and pulled in head first through the void “Help me…aaaahh!!!” Cyra screamed as she disappeared into the portal,

“Cyra!” Yelled the two boys the boys then look at each other “Uh-oh”.




Meanwhile, in the Artisan Home World of the Dragon Worlds, Spyro is seen sleeping on his back, bathing in the warm sun, beside the waterfall. Spyro was sleeping quite soundly, until a portal suddenly sprouted out the ground right in front of him.

“Whoa! What the! A portal!?” is surprise “Jeeze! Why can’t they things just sprout up somewhere else instead of blocking my sun!?” Spyro added. As Spyro began to get up, the portal shimmered to life and a little, blue dragon just exploded out the portal and landed right on top of Spyro.

“Ow!” the little dragon groaned, the little Dragon then realised that it had landed on top of Spyro and got itself up “Oh! I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to…” the little dragon added apologetically.

“That’s ok” Spyro reassured the dragon. As Spyro got up and took a better look at the dragon, he noticed that the little dragon was in fact a little, female dragon, with royal blue scales, a nice, neat, blazing-red crest, four neat, slightly-curved horns and nice, light-blue eyes. The dragon then looked at Spyro in awe. “What?” Spyro questioned her expression,

“A-are you…a dragon?” She asked with a puzzled quizzical expression on her face.

“Umm…yeah…” Spyro said “And uh…so are you in case you hadn’t noticed” Spyro added.

“Hmm? Me? Nah…” she replied, she then noticed Spyro’s unsure expression “What? I’m not actually a Dragon, am I?” She added. The little dragon them got up and tottered on two legs and collapsed onto four legs, she looked puzzled and then walked across to the pool and looked at her reflection.

“Whaaa! What the he--! I am a dragon but…how!!!” the dragon yelped in fright as she looked at her reflection. She then backed away from the pool, clearly shaken up.

“ Uh…you know, you’re beginning to scare me now…” Spyro said

“Oh! Yeah? Well if you were a human and suddenly somehow, magically turned into a dragon, wouldn’t you at least be a wee bit startled?” She replied, a little peeved by Spyro’s arrogance

“ Well…yeah…if you put it that way…” Spyro replied back, Spyro then stopped to think, “Wait. You were a Human?” Spyro asked.

“Yeah. First I was in a school fieldtrip in the Scottish highlands, then that thing there just sorta pulled me in like there was no tomorrow and the next thing I’m here and what’s more? I’m a dragon. Huh! What a life, eh?” She rattled off.

”Weird…” Spyro added

“Heh. Tell me about it! God. This is gonna take some getting used to…” she replied

“Hm. Anyway…I’m Spyro by the way. And you?” Spyro asked,

“Oh! I’m Cyra” Cyra replied.

“Huh? Really?” Spyro asked,

“ Yeah. Why?” Cyra questioned Spyro.

“Oh. Nothing. It’s just that you’re named after a Dragon goddess.” Said Spyro

“Wow! Really?” Cyra said

“Yeah Goddess of ice and Ki” Spyro replied.

”Oh. Wow! I never knew that. Cool!

” Spyro and Cyra then continued to chat to each other, contently as the afternoon wore on.


Meanwhile, In Raku’s fortress of dark, damp, crumbling walls, little with statues of Dark Dragons and dark thoughts, Raku is seen sitting on his throne with many dark memories carved onto the termite-bitten woodwork. Suddenly, a tall door at the other end of the gloomy hall burst open and a Shadow Dragon bursts in about to give some alarming news to Raku.

“Lord Raku. Forgive me for intruding but I have some entreating news for you. It’s about the rift, sir” Raku‘s unseen eyes then swiftly look up

“What? What about it?” Asked Raku who was now interested

“The rift that supposed to have closed the Dragon with the prophecy from us has been reopened, sir but I don’t know where” answered the Shadow Dragon. Raku the got up from his throne and rubbed his clawed hands together in a scheming way “Excellent! And don’t bother with that portal…” Raku then walks over to an inactive portal “All I have to do is manipulate the energy of the rift into this one” Raku then took his left clawed hand and touched the gemstone at the top and the portal came to life “Like so” Raku added “You go and get ready with Lt. Grimtooth and do what you can to bring the dragon with the prophecy to me! Now go!” Raku ordered,

“Yes sir!” The Shadow Dragon responded

“Looks like everything is working in our favour after all” Raku ended, who then laughed an evil laugh that shook the crumble walls of Raku’s fortress.

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