Skylanders: Age of Ruin

Chapter one: Devastation

Look...I have no idea for the timeline for this...a lot of things are going to happen that are going to throw the cannon for a massive loop. I'd put it after the series has ended but, it doesn't look like it's going to end any time soon. So, any games that have released will be counted as 'in the past' for this, which will also include games that have yet to even be announced, but as nobody knows anything about those...also, I have yet to play Super chargers so I don't know much about that either...so...just bare with me, okay? This is going to be worth it...or at least I hope it will be...well, here goes nothing

The evil plans, the armies of darkness, the megolamaniacal scheming, everything was over. It was an age where good reined, at long last. Which is not to say it was a time of absolute peace. Heroes were still needed: there were still war and problems with the world (monsters were still a problem, as they were techincally residents of Skylanders, no matter how rowdy and mencaing). But, it was still an age of good, a time when Skylands as a whole was no longer threatened.

None the less the mighty Skylanders, heroes of Skylands for untold centuries, grew in number like never before. For any being with a single drop of heroism in them was welcomed and trained. Things were going well.

Then the Skyquakes started. They weren't at all like earthquakes, but they weren't like anything anyone had ever experienced. In fact, nobody knew what they even were; the sky turned red and thick choking smog filled the air, making it difficult to breathe and all but impossible to see. And then...entire islands, entire achipelegoes sometimes, blew apart; leaving nothing but dust, debris, and maybe, just MAYBE, if they were lucky, a survivor or two. Even the elemental energies flowing through the places seemed drained away.

Needless to say, the Skylanders had their hands full with these unusual disasters. Even the newest of recruits were kept busy with all the work coming in. One of these newbies felt as though he may have actually figured out something about these catastrophies and was rushing to tell the oddly small number of beings that were counted as higher ups in and for the Skylanders what he had discovered. However, these higher ups were in an intense meeting at the time.

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"At this rate, there'll be nothing left before long..." Mags said, after making calculations, hanging her head slightly, "looks like this is curtains for Skylands

"Adventuring rule number one: Skylands is always bigger than you think it is," Wash Buckler retorted, "besides, these things can't go on forever."

"Maybe not, but the amount of time they continue doesn't matter," Buzz muttered "they're draining away Skylands' life force: they leave whole areas of sky barren of all elemental energy, Light and Dark included. Even if they stop with most od Skylands still in tact, it may wind up simply dying..."

"We can't give up hope." Spyro said, "there has to be some way to make things right, to stop these Skyquakes."

"That's the spirit!" Tree Rex said, "it can't be that hard to find an answer."

Suddenly voices echoed from outside. One seemed rushed and nervous, while another was obvious Crusher, who'd been posted to keep other Skylanders from interupting the meeting.

"you have to let me in! I have something to tell them!" Said the first voice

"I'm under order than nobody gets in," Crusher growled out in his gravely voice.

"Please this important!" the first voice screamed.

Crusher was anout to reply when Spyro shouted through the door.

"Bring him on in, Crush!" Spyro said

Crusher opened the door and in ushered in a nervous looking Elf with a bionic eye who was carrying several rolled up peices of paper.

"Ah, Critz." Spyro said, recognising the recruit, "what's up?"

"Spyro, everyone else!" Critz said, quickly setting his papers down and spreading them out, they were several charts, maps and other information, "the Skyquakes...I figured something out...it's not good..."

He received a few question looks and, as he couldn't get past his own stammering, he began to point and gesture to his charts. Spyro was the first to make a realization.

"The Skyquakes are happening in a pattern..." He said.

" I-it's worse than th-th-that," Critz said, pulling out a large, old looking book to add more info to what he'd shown them. But before he could show it to the others, the sky outside the meeting room turned blood red

The entire resisdence of the Skylanders academy all froze, suddenly horrified.

"No... Not here..." Spyro stared open-mouthed. Then he made to call out to the others to evacuate. But it was too late, the smog had already set in and a terrible grinding, crunching noise filled the air.

Then, like all the others that had felt a Skyquake, the island exploded like a dying star.

When he came to, Spyro found himself in the medbay of a ship. He immediatly recognised it as Flynn's; not the Dreadyacht, but a new, far larger, currently unamed ship that had been built through need as the Skylanders' numbers swelled insanely. When he tried to get up he found he could barely move. He looked around and only saw two more people in the room. Taking up several beds on the far side of the room was Tree Rex, who looked was unconscious and with good reason: he had massive gaping wounds and was slowly but surely rehealing himself, which took ludicrous amount of stamina from him. The other person in the room, propped weakly in a chai next to Spyro, was Critz. He was weakly clutching the strange book he had pulled out during the meeting, but when he saw Spyro was awake, he set it next to him.

"The book...has...answers" he breathed out, each word clearly causing him pain, "sorry that...I didn't...find...it...soo...ner..." Suddenly he collapsed and the chair fell back. Spyro tried to help, but the most he could manage was to very, very shakily get to his feet his feet and hobble just an inch or so closer to Critz before collapsing, on the verge of blacking out. Before he lost consciouness he noticed the cloth wrapped around Crtiz's chest, with a large bloodstain right over the hear.

And then he knew no more for some time

So yeah. Chapter one of the new series. I gave myself a bit of room to add in a few OCs, and I'd say I did pretty well for the first chapter for once.

WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?

I'm trying something new. Trust me, it's not going to stay serious the whole time. It'll have my usual weird humor, and maybe even other forms of happy things. Just...not yet.

But...but...

Yeah, I know. It's different. But hey, Different is Good.

Belak Out