Skylanders: Reborn

Prologue

Fourteen years ago, the dark portal master known as Kaos destroyed Cloudcracker Prison, home to the most notorious villains in the world in order to strenthen his dark army. In the process, the Trap Masters were sent to Earth, where they were found by Leo and Madeline, who turned out to be portal masters. Using the Traptanium Portal, they sent the Trap Masters back to Skylands, where they helped the other Skylanders there to capture the escaped villains using pieces of traptanium known as 'traps'.

Eventually, Kaos himself was trapped in the Black Kaos Trap and imprisoned with the other villains in the Villain Vault. Now, Cloudcracker Prison has been restored, and Leo, Madeline, and the Trap Masters live there as it's faithful protectors, just as the rest of the Skylanders and their portal masters protect all of Skylands. This prison is where our story begins, and where the story of another ends...

"Leo!" called Snap Shot. The blue crocagator had been looking through Cloudcracker Prison for the human portal master of the Trap Team all morning. Snap Shot had to give the weekly report on the prisoners to Leo, and currently the water Trap Master was walking down a hall leading to the east tower, a place that Snap Shot knew the portal master often went to think.

Snap Shot was wondering what Leo had to be thinking about at the time as he walked down the hall, when he suddenly heard footsteps coming towards him from behind. This sound was followed by a young silver blonde haired woman wearing a silver dress, a white cape with a depiction of a pair of golden scales on the back, and a pair of silver colored sandals. The female human also had a silver necklace and several rings on each finger, all embedded with crystals ranging in colors from deep violet to golden yellow. Most people would assume that these crystals were just jewelry, but Snap Shot knew that they were actually traptanium crystals designed to capture any villains in an emerency.

"Hello Snap Shot," said the woman. "Looking for my brother I see."

"Hello Madeline," said Snap Shot. "Yes, I am. It seems that Leo is in the east tower more and more often lately. I'm worried. Remember the last time this happened?"

Madeline nodded. It was hard to forget what happened when the Golden Queen tried to escape six years ago. She made it to the very edge of the island and was just about to teleport away when one of Ka-Boom and Gearshift's hand-made mines that were planted around the outside of the prison suddenly went off and blasted apart the section of the island she was standing on. The piece of the island sank beneath the Sea of Clouds, therefore the Golden Queen was assumed dead. Leo had went to the east tower everyday for a month beforehand.

"Meaning that something will probably happen," said Madeline sadly. Hearing her tone of voice, Snap Shot knew he had to cheer her up. Despite the fact that she was a grown woman at the age of 24, Snap Shot still often thought of Madeline as the 10-year old girl who was just learning to control her magic powers. Whenever he saw her down like this, he felt a fatherly instinct to raise her spirits up.

"Don't you worry, Madeline," Snap Shot said with a light smile. "The Skylanders and the Trap Team can handle anything that comes our way", he continued as they approached the east tower. "Besides, what's the worst that could happen?"

OOOOOOOO

Leo knew the worst was about to happen. He had known it for a quite a while now. Ever since the day he had passed the cell he had always hoped to avoid. Ever since he had heard the voice that had warned him of an impending disaster. Ever since he had run into Kaos.

The portal master had been wandering around the lower dungeons of the prison looking for Wildfire, Bushwhack, and Wallop, who were doing cell inspection that day but had gotten lost because one of the maps of the prison were missing. Wildfire had insisted that they go anyway because he thought he could remember the way. That was a mistake, and so Leo had volunteered to look for them after Blastermind found the map under the front desk at the north entrance. And as Leo was walking through one of the deeper parts of the dungeon, he passed a cell that a voice spoke from...

"You must be Leo. It's nice to finally meet you," said a voice from the cell to his right. Leo didn't recognize the voice at all, but that didn't surprise him since he hadn't been down in the prison dungeons for years. Prisoners' voices could change drastically in that time period. It was the only cell in the corridor, and Leo had thought it was empty. Even directly in front of it, he still couldn't see anyone inside.

"You must be pretty good at hiding," Leo said calmly. "Although, you know there's no need to hide in the cell, right? Especially if you reveal yourself anyway."

"I'm not hiding," said the voice. "It's just that after all these years, the memory and fear of me has faded away. Probably even the villains of this very prison don't even remember me, despite the fact that I was the one who freed them all those years ago."

"Based on that description, I assume your Kaos," said Leo. "And now that I know that, I don't see any reason to talk to you anymore." Leo started walking away, but then a dirty and gnarled hand shot out of the cell and grabbed his wrist, and pulled him closer to the cell bars. And although he still couldn't see Kaos' face, Leo could see his eyes. Eyes filled with loathing and evil so strong, Leo knew he would have nightmares about them for weeks on end.

"This is a warning boy," said Kaos. "Soon this prison will be destroyed along with almost everyone in it, including me and every other prisoner. This can not be stopped. When this happens, you will face the most terrible choice a portal master can make."

"Like I believe that," said Leo as he pulled his hand away. He tried to sound confident, but his voice had a hint of doubt in it. "You're just trying to scare me into doing something stupid."

There was a slight movement, and Leo could tell Kaos was smirking. "Believe what you will," said Kaos as he slunk back to a dark corner of the cell. "All will be proven once He comes..."

Suddenly, Leo was shocked out of his memories by a familiar voice behind him. "There you are Leo," said the voice, which was revealed to be Snap Shot when Leo turned around.

"Ah, Snap Shot," said Leo as he recovered himself. "Have you come to give me the weekly report?"

"Yes, he has," said another familiar voice from the staircase. A few seconds later, Leo's sister Madeline followed, gasping for breath. "And I'm sure that he would like to give it to you someplace else besides a tower with a lot of stairs next time. Right, Snap Shot?"

"Not really. I actually appreciate the work out," said Snap Shot, earning him a glare from the female portal master. "Anyway, now that you're both here, I can give the report",continued the Trap Master as he pulled a small scroll from between the blue traptanium bow and arrow strapped to his back.

Leo, groaned silently. Even after fourteen years of being the co-portal master for the Trap Team, he still hated to listen to the weekly reports. Yet he also knew that it was important to listen to this. So although he was groaning inwardly, Leo was attentive as Snap Shot unrolled the scroll and began to read the report.

"First off on the agenda is the Chompy Mage," Snap Shot began. "For the past week, he has been unable to move from his bed due to what appears to be severe phantom pains. I suggest..."

Suddenly, Snap Shot was interrupted by a flash of black light coming from the window, followed by a horrible, monstrous roar...

A/N

A/N

Hello, Skylanders enthusiasts everywhere! I am Magicanus, and the 'a' is pronounced like in 'major' and the 'g' is pronounced like in 'giant'. Just wanted to clear that up.

"Nobody really cares."

And please give a not-so-warm welcome to Foaly, my censuring centaur(just came up with that). He's from another dimension inside of a book, or rather book series. I pull a lot of characters out of books. So much that I decided to make a game of it. Every ten chapters, I will pull a character out of a book, and whoever puts the right answer in the review first gets a mystery prize!

"It's a silly and pointless game really."

You know, maybe I shouldn't have brought you out during the earlier chapters of the fifth book. You're much more mellow after getting married at the end of the fifth book.

"You mean...I marry..."

Yup. Now don't say anymore. I've given enough hints as to which series you come from already.

"...uh..."

Anyway, now it's time for the hint to next chapter's title. Just a little thing I do. Keep your guess to yourself, don't put it in the review. Now here it is.

What is on ship until it is found,
and when it is seen, the ship has to turn around.

That's it. Now this is Magicanus saying, Stay magic!