Chapter 1: Because of Love

Here we have two gaming characters that I personally love: Crash and Spyro. I've placed these two in the same world, yet separated them by time. I take some drastic liberties with the established canon of these two franchises, the more drastic changes are intentional to either enhance the plot of the story or to strengthen the character of the characters (pun intended). Crash is a creation of Dr. Cortex, but defects due to his love of the other test subject, Tawna. He meets one of the local tribeswomen, a young teenager named Coco. After four years (details omitted), Crash is accidentally stranded one hundred thousand years in the past and is befriended by a young Dragon named Spyro. Spyro is predestined for greatness, but the power of the Sorceress, the betrayal of Red the Elder Dragon from the Council of Elders, and the war monger Gnasty Gnork threaten to kill all the Dragons of the Dragon Realms. By accident or by fate, a friendship emerges from this unlikely duo, and although Spyro may or may not have needed Crash's help, his presence certainly changed his life.