Shadow Reckoning
The neon-drenched spires of the city bled into the starry, twilight sky, casting long, dramatic shadows over the cracked asphalt. The air smelled of ozone, burnt magic, and rain. The battle for the Dark Ghost City was over, but the silence that followed felt heavier than the conflict itself. When it was all over, we still didn’t have a real good idea as to what had happened. "The Lightning Emperor had just disappeared," Kyoji Kagami told Tatsuma Heyu, Spyro, and Masaki Kurusu. He adjusted his glasses, his reflection fractured in the shattered glass of a nearby skyscraper. "His signature completely vanished from the grid the moment the sky tore open." Tatsuma, still wearing his frayed grey school uniform, stood with his arms crossed, staring up at the swirling cosmic vortex fading in the clouds. Beside him, Spyro shook his purple scales, sparks still dancing off his horns as he looked toward the horizon. Masaki Kurusu gripped his weapon, his gaze fixed on the massive...