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It was a freezing dark night in a remote realm, and Spyro was wandering through the snow. He felt how the cold freezed his bones reaching his broken heart. He could hardly think how he got there, at the edge of death, with no one by his side. He made the hardest of efforts in remembering why he was alone in the dark in a lost place he'd never been. Walking as fast as the raw winter wind let him, glimpses of memory came shyly to his mind. His eyes began to cry, something he hardly ever did in his whole life, but the freezing wind froze the teardrops as fast as they touched his violet cheeks. He punished himself by remembering the hell he had passed, and how lost was his life.

Flashback

Not many days ago, he was in the Dragon Shores having some fun with Elora, Hunter, the Professor, Sheila, Blink and Flame. Laughter and happiness- two marvelous things that Spyro thought they would no longer be possible to have again now- were strongly present at the friends' meeting. Nothing could possibly turn wrong- or unless he thought that.

Suddenly, a stranger appeared. He was a meter and a half tall, but his face was not possible to be seen due to his clothes. He wore a large magician's vest and a strange mask that covered his face. His body was impossible to see, except for one furry black hand, which he used to tell the Professor to approach.

The Professor went as if he perfectly knew the guy, and spent a while talking to him. His complexion turned from joy to surprise, and then to sorrow. Spyro was mostly intrigued, but at the same time he suspected something really wrong was going on, and that a new adventure was coming up. When the professor came back, he said with an unexpected fear in his words: "I'm sorry, but I must leave. Spyro, you must come with me at once"

Spyro said farewell to his friends, not really realizing that that was going to be the last time he saw his friends.

End of Flashback

Spyro stopped thinking about the past and passed out; the cold was in fact unbearable.

When he woke up, he was at an unknown place. He felt hypothermic, and his purple was a lot paler than usual. He saw a strange figure in the room, which seemed to be a kind of female leopard, but a little bit different than the ones he knew.

Recovering a little bit he asked the stranger: "Where am I, fair lady?"

"You are at a known place, the valley of Avalar, you should rest if you want to live. I saved your life out there"-she answered.

Ignoring the question and happy of having heard he was at a place he used to know, he asked: "The Valley of Avalar? But that's impossible! Please take me to the professor right now!"

"The Professor?" –replied the leopardess with surprise "I don´t know the creature named that way"

Not believing it, and fearing he had come too late to save his friends, he asked quizzically: "How don´t you know him? There are not lots of creatures in Avalar, and he is one of the most important ones! He helped me to save Avalar from the hands of Ripto, the same as Elora, and Moneybags! Are they ok?"

"Moneybags, Elorain? Who are them? I fear you are out of your mind."-the leopardess answered.

Spyro couldn't believe what was happening. How could he be in Avalar and be talking with a girl that does not know about his best friends? What had happened to Hunter, Sheila, Agent Nine? Was he triggered to the future? Was he too late?

"Let's wait for Hunter. He will know what to do. Just rest a little bit, Spyro, you need it."-she said as she left through the door.

She knew Hunter? She knew himself? How was it possible? How could she not know his other friends but know he and Hunter? Spyro didn't find a possible answer and quickly passed out, due to the stress and lots of nights of not sleeping. He dreamed of the nightmare that he had lived a few days before.

Flashback

"Spyro"-said the professor. "You may be surprised about my attitude out there, but there's a terrible problem that has to be solved."

"Bring it on"-answered Spyro, daring. "I have fought against Gnasty Gnorc, Ripto, The Sorceress and Red, whatever comes will be easy as pie"

"Spyro, this is not just as kicking some butts as you usually say, but I'm afraid that if you take this task, you will never come back."-said the professor.

Spyro was nowhere close to feel fear, his arrogance through years of victories had left him that mark.

"You'll see"-explained the professor "The masked guy you saw out there was a dimension observer"

"A dime of that server?"-mocked Spyro.

"No, Spyro, a dimension observer. You'll see; we live in a dimension, a vision of the world. We know no other thing. However, magicians have discovered through time that there is there exists other universes, parallel dimensions, which we have not been aware of and most of us are not capable of understanding. I shall not lose time in telling you how it works because I humbly haven't discovered how and there's no time to lose. Our friend out there is constantly guarding our dimension and others in order to see when there is a corruption or mistake in one of them. It happens that we have similar beings in some of these universes. This means there is another Spyro, another Sparx and even another me in some of them!"

Spyro couldn´t believe it, and understood only half of what he said as he was looking to the crazy faces Sparx did.

"Spyro, this is serious!"-said worried the Professor.

"Just tell me who's the troublemaker and I'll just make him wish he was never born."-said Spyro

"His name is Malefor"-said The Professor "He is a pure evil dragon from a universe we call the Mithic universe, and wants to rule the world. Here's the important part. There is an alter ego in that world that has fought him valiantly by the side of another dragon called Cynder, but they've been defeated. She managed to escape while your alter ego was annihilated, or, as far as we know, he is no longer on that dimention."

Spyro heard the last part perfectly. His alter ego was a loser. But, if he was the hero of that world and lost, how could he win in a world that he didn´t know?

"This is not the worst part. Malefor has become the master of that universe and has taken my alter ego from that world as a prisoner. My alter ego told Malefor about the existence of other dimensions and the greed of this powerful enemy has lead him to want to rule this one in particular. All dimension observers from all the known dimensions decided to search for the heroes of each dimension in order to fight back this evil force. You are the greatest hero round here, and possibly in all the dimensions. It is your destiny to defeat Malefor, or else we will all be down the rule of evil. You don't know how devastated that world is."

"I´ll take the task, professor! I will defeat that Malefor guy"-said Spyro.

"I'm relieved to hear that, son."-said the professor. "Now there's no time to lose. Enter this portal I have opened with a hundred orbs, that is the only way in the Mythic dimension. To come back, you must go with a dimension observer, and the only one there is an old dragon called The Chronicler, who is at a temple."

The Professor opened the gate and told the indications to Spyro.

"Sparx cannot follow you. You cannot be in a dimension if you have an alter ego there. I strongly recommend you to find this Cynder dragon and Sparx's alter ego."-explained The Professor.

And before he could explain anything else, Spyro was travelling through dimensions.

"The best of lucks, Spyro"-said The Professor- "You will need it."

End of Flashback

See ya in the next chapter!