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The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night Theatrical Shorts
Template:Media The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night Promotional Shorts are short movies based on the beginning events of the The Eternal Night in The Legend of Spyro series. They are divided into three chapters, all of them which were developed by Renkewitz Studios and published by Sierra Entertainment.
Story
Chapter 1
In the dark region of the Mountain of Malefor, a thunder storm crackled loudly and ominously as a ray of light was emitting from the core of the mountain. Within the mountain, a group of Apes were chanted the name of their Ape King, Gaul, as he stepped into the chamber from the shadows. Gaul silences the Apes as he began to make his announcement, but was interrupted by objects falling loudly to the floor. The Ape King's attention turns to an Ape Leader nearby, who had accidentally knocked over a few weapons and quickly apologized for his actions (this was Gaul's only comedic element). Gaul then turns back to his Ape army and announces that their enemies, the Dragons, are prepared to defend their temple. In anticipation of this, the Apes resume their chanting of Gaul's name.
Gaul then lowers his staff towards the Apes and commands them to look at it as magical energy began to swirling the gem at the top of the staff. The Apes silence their chanting and gaze upon the staff in awe, as Gaul's staff began showing them a scene using its magic...
At the entrance to the Dragon Dojo, Cynder was eagerly guiding Spyro to the center of the room, as Sparx moans sarcastically about spending the day inside the 'creepy dragon room.' The yellow dragonfly then moans to himself, saying that he needs new friends and turns around only to come face-to-face with the descending dragon statue, which scares him enough for him to fly around in fear. As Sparx flies around still in terror, Spyro feels uneasy and says to Cynder that he isn't sure how the training works on getting his powers back. As the Dragon statue disappears beneath the closing floor, Cynder reassures Spyro to relax and that the training they were about to do will be fun. She begins explaining to him about how to work the dojo out: all Spyro has to do is stand outside the circle on the floor, and whatever he thinks of will appear within the circle. Cynder shows an example by making a dummy appear within the circle of the Dojo by using her thoughts, then encourages Spyro to try using his elemental powers on the dummy.
Spyro gives in to the training and advances towards the dummy; he attempts to breathe fire on it, but all that came out were puffs of smoke. After another try, which left him gasping for breath, Sparx flies to Spyro's side and laughs at his attempts. Cynder encourages Spyro again, and after a few more tries, the purple dragon managed to breathe a fire blast on the dummy, successfully burning it to ashes. This surprises Spyro, believing that he has regained his Fire element at last.
Cynder walks over to Spyro and remarks that the return of Spyro's fire breath was only a matter of time. The young purple dragon walks by Cynder to the other side of the chamber, telling her to give him something more challenging, to which Sparx agrees by saying to Cynder on what she was thinking of giving Spyro something simple as the dummy. Cynder playfully calls Spyro a tough guy and tells him to try the next thing she thinks of, closing her eyes to think of it. A shimmer of light emitted from the center of the room, followed by a sinister laughter, which causes Cynder to look upon the figure she thought about. The hulking form of Gaul appeared, growling Cynder's name menacingly as he raised his sword in the air, prompting Cynder to scurry away.
Gaul turns his attention to Spyro and raises his sword, slashing for him, but the young dragon quickly jumps out of the way of the blade as it pierces the ground he was previously standing on. As Gaul turned back to Cynder and stepped towards her, Spyro immediately stood in front of Cynder protectively, urging her to end the training to make Gaul go away, but to Cynder's horror, she discovers that she can't. The young purple dragon opened his mouth to blast fire on the Ape King, but nothing came out, making Spyro realize in horror that his Fire element hadn't fully returned. Upon this realization, Gaul hits Spyro away with his sword towards the other side of the room, knocking him senseless. The Ape King growls Cynder's name again as he turns his head back towards the dragoness, with Cynder running for her life.
Sparx desperately calls out to Spyro to do something and that he was running out of time to save Cynder. Spyro quickly regains his consciousness only to see Gaul attacking a fleeing Cynder by slamming his sword, barely missing her as the black dragoness lost her footing by the force of the sword and rolled across the ground, dazed. The purple dragon stared at the scene quietly, seeing Cynder lift herself up and look over to Spyro. As Gaul raised his sword upwards to kill Cynder, a flash of light caught his attention as he turned back to Spyro, seeing him hover in the air, gaining a mysterious power. Using this power, Spyro flew over to Gaul and attacked him using his melee combat abilities, which was enough to make the Gaul imitation disappear, and Spyro fell to the ground.
Cynder walks over to Spyro, astonished by his power. As Spyro stands back up and turns to Cynder, the black dragoness asked him on how did he do that attack that saved them both, which leaves Spyro confused by what she meant...
At the Mountain of Malefor, the magic of Gaul's staff dissipates, and the Ape King shakes his head furiously as if he had felt the blows Spyro delivered upon his training imitation. He then declares that they must attack the Dragon Temple, and that he, the great Gaul, mustn't fail. An armored Ape, along with a purple Dreadwing, enters the room and announces his support in Gaul's plans ("The Masked Assassin never fails!"), but his speech was incomprehensible due to his helmet. His eyes gleamed a menacing red as the Apes resumed chanting Gaul's name...
Chapter 2: The Calm & The Storm
The movie starts by showing brief flashbacks of the events that occurred in the previous part: Gaul plotting his attack on the Dragon Temple, the Dragon Dojo incident involving Gaul's training imitation against Spyro and Cynder, and the Assassin making his appearance...
The scene switches to the night sky where Spyro is seen flying for his life through the skies while looking back at a large swarm of Dreadwings who were hot on his tail. One of the Dreadwings was catching up to Spyro and made a lunge for him, but the young purple dragon dodges the strike and quickly dodges another while hovering in place. He retaliates by breathing blasts of fire at the surrounding Dreadwings, but finds himself greatly outnumbered. Just as two Dreadwings made a final lunge for him, a familiar voice wakes up Spyro from his nightmare, asking him if he was okay. Spyro finds himself back at the Dragon Temple as Sparx, revealing to be the one who woke him up, asks Spyro if he was having another nightmare.
Spyro stands up, facing the entrance to the chamber was in with the setting sun in view. He tells Sparx that something is coming, and quickly flies out of the chamber to warn the other Guardians with the yellow dragonfly trailing after him. At the balcony of the main Temple, Ignitus, Cyril, Terrador, and Volteer are seen standing in the center of the balcony. Spyro calls out to Ignitus as he arrives, appearing before the great Fire Guardian and urgently telling him that they've got to hurry and that he had another vision. Before Spyro can explain further, Ignitus calmly interrupts him by telling Spyro to turn around slowly. Spyro did so, only to get into battle stance as he and Sparx noticed that a large horde of Dreadwings had just arrived at the Dragon Temple to begin their attack.
A pair of Dreadwings stepped aside to allow the Assassin, the leader of the Dreadwing army, to approach the Dragons and tell them to prepare to meet their doom, but his words are greatly muffled by his words making him hard to hear. Spyro asks the Assassin what he said, and when the Assassin repeated his words, the purple dragon and the Guardians still couldn't understand him. Fustrated, the Assassin turns to his army and orders them to attack the temple, but the Ape Soldiers didn't understand what he was saying either, despite the Assassin repeating his words as slowly as possible. Annoyed, Sparx speaks out that he thinks the Assassin said to attack the temple, and the Ape Soldiers finally understand. By the Assassin's command, the army of Dreadwings began their assault.
As the Dreadwings begin their attack, Ignitus commands the other Guardians and Spyro to defend the Temple, and the dragon began to counter the advancing Dreadwings using their respective elements. However, there were too many Dreadwings, and the Dragons were becoming overwhelmed. Spyro tells Sparx that they both need to draw the Dreadwings away from the Temple, and the two take flight into the air away from the balcony. Sparx catches the Dreadwings' attention by calling them oversized chickens, causing them to fly over to Spyro's direction in retaliation. Spyro attacks the advancing Dreadwings using various elemental moves, defeating them with relative ease. Sparx sneers and remarks about having mash with the roast chicken that are the Dreadwings. Suddenly, two Dreadwings appear behind Sparx menacingly and the yellow dragonfly fearfully tries to reason with them that he isn't the main course. As the yellow dragonfly flees into the direction of the Swamp, the Dreadwings chase after him.
After defeating the Dreadwings, Spyro calls out to Sparx, wanting both of them give the Assassin something to mumble about, but noticed that Sparx wasn't around. Spyro calls out his brother's name, asking him where he was, before flying off in a desperate attempt to find him...
Chapter Three: Deep Into The Forest
Within the dark depths of a forest, Spyro is scouring the area, flying inches above the soil to cover more ground in his search for Sparx. After a few moments of searching, he comes to a stop near a log and looks over it, calling Sparx's name. A familiar voice speaks out Spyro's name as the log moved, and as Spyro observed closer, a bulge traveled up the log's narrow opening as Sparx makes his out of the log, partly saying that he is glad to see Spyro. But he instead complains to Spyro on what took him so long to find the yellow dragonfly as he had a squadron of Dreadwings on his trail. Spyro explains to Sparx that the Dreadwings are gone and that they both saved the temple, but Sparx corrects that HE saved the temple, to which Spyro rolls his eyes and responds with a 'Whatever' before beginning their journey out of the woods.
After a while of wandering, Spyro and Sparx come across a large lump of wood, to which Sparx complains about. However, Spyro notices something odd about the wood, saying that something wasn't right about it. As if on cue, the lump of wood came to life and stood up high, turning around to glare down at Spyro and Sparx and revealing itself to be the tree sentinel, Arborick. In horror, Sparx responds to Spyro's earlier comment and asks Spyro has anything ever been more wrong. Arborick's awakening startles a swarm of bat-like creatures, and Spyro, knowing that they were danger, immediately urges Sparx to go ahead as they both flew in between the legs of Arborick while being pursued by a large horde of bats. The purple dragon turns around and breathes fire on the approaching bats, succeeding in incinerating most of them but more of them still came. Spyro then guided Sparx to another direction as they flew through the crannies of the woods where lava lit the caverns in an orange glow.
As they flew around with the bats hot on their tail, Spyro tells Sparx to keep going so that he can hold off the bats, and Sparx hovers nearby out of harm's way. The purple dragon leads the bats away into a nearby area and proceeds to attack them using various elemental moves, defeating them all. Suddenly, the sound of Sparx muffling caught his attention and Spyro flew over to where Sparx went, only to see him in the clutches of the Assassin.
The Assassin tells Spyro that his time has come, but Spyro didn't understand his words due to his helmet, and Sparx thinks that the Assassin said that he 'finally found a plum'. Spyro blasted an electricity discharge at the Assassin, electrocuting him into releasing Sparx, who had felt the aftershock of the electricity as he was freed. The Assassin furiously told Spyro that this confrontation will go no further, but Spyro didn't hear him clearly and asks if he said he 'was his father', to which the Assassin groans in aggravation. The armored Ape then lunges at Spyro, and the purple dragon leaps out of the way and fires another electrical discharge at the Assassin, sending him crashing against a nearby wall.
Recovering from the blow, the Assassin slowly gets up and whistles for his Dreadwing, who immediately comes to his side. The armored Ape climbs aboard his mount and declares to Spyro that he hasn't heard the last of him, to which Spyro responds with a ferocious snarl as the Assassin flees. The scene dissolves into a chamber of the Well of Souls as the magic of Gaul's staff dissipates; the Ape King having watched the whole scenario using his staff's power. He glares over at the screen and roars angrily at it with fury...
Video Chapters
Gallery
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Spyro faces the Assassin once more
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Spyro looks at the setting sun upon awaking from his nightmare
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Spyro about to tell Ignitus about his vision
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Sparx 'encouraging' Spyro in his training
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Cynder about to give Spyro something 'more challenging' in his training
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Spyro attacking the aggressive bat-like enemies
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Storyboard piece of one of the Chapters -
The storyboard piece of the Dragon Statue -
Spyro and Cynder in a storyboard piece for the first chapter
