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Part 1 of Skylanders: A Magical Adventure
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2026-05-02
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The Skylands' New Portal Master

Summary:

A Portal Master. Some of the greatest leaders and guardians of the world of Skylands.

Beings like them are not made, far from it. In fact, the ability to be a Portal Master is a gift that few beings are born with, and this has caused there to be varying amounts of Poral Masters throughout the countless years of Skylands to aid and lead the Skylanders. This is to a point that many believe that Portal Masters only come to being when they are needed, and right now...

You are needed, Young Portal Master.

Notes:

Welp. Here with another story, and this one is based off of a childhood video game of mine that I was positively obsessed with as a child. Like seriously, while I am unfortunately unable to play the games themselves anymore because of a loss of Portals of Power and a Wii, I still possess every single Skylander I ever collected during the years that these games were coming out. And so, after a while, I guess that you can say that it is no surprise that at some point, I was going to create this story.

So, while this is a short chapter, I hope that you enjoy this little start before the bigger chapters all come along.

Chapter 1: Greetings...

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

???’s Perspective

Location: ???

“Greetings, Young Portal Master!”

It was a sudden greeting. One that you had not expected, yet somehow, it did not scare you.

Even though it came from a see-through floating head of all things. And was also a see-through floating head that was clearly excited to greet you.

“I have been waiting for you. I am Eon. Your guide in this world. ‘But where are you?’, you may ask.” The head, introducing itself as Eon, said with a kind smile, before it then moved to the side.

And as a result, instead of floating in the air with the clouds and seeing nothing else but the blue sky and clouds, you now saw many floating islands. Some small and barely having a few rocks and trees, while others were larger and connected with each other to have large structures built upon them. Yet, that was not all, as you could also see several creatures, from basic sheep to even dragons flying in the air.

“This, is Skylands. An ancient world of Wonder and Mystery. For generations, the Portal Masters and the Skylanders kept Peace and Balance in this world, so that all creatures could thrive. Magic flows through everything here. Every rock, every tree and every beast.” Eon told you, with you noticing a dragon accidentally sitting on top of a sheep once it landed on an island, causing you to chuckle as the winged creatures momentarily struggled to get the sheep off its butt.

Yet, your attention was once more caught by Eon when he spoke.

“But now, our world is in great danger.” As Eon said these words, you saw that the dragon and sheep both noticed something that quickly scared both creatures as they looked up, and you were soon shown a sudden mass of dark clouds that felt like they held something belonging to your worst nightmares within them. “The Darkness is spreading. Skylands needs your help.”

It was at this point that what you were seeing faded away and Eon was now the focus of your attention once more.

“A great adventure awaits you, Young Portal Master.” Eon said with a small smile, before he then look more serious. “I have sent my assistant, Hugo, to seek you out.”

While it looked like Eon wanted to say more, your vision began to darken, something he noticed. And so, the floating head briefly appeared sad, before then looking at you once more and gave a patient smile as he gave some parting words.

“We will speak again.”

Notes:

Yeah, easily considered going further with this, but I decided on the starting chapter just being the Eon greeting to just be too nostalgic of a choice to ignore and it also allows me some freedom to establish a few things for this idea.

Number 1, the Portal Master in this story will get referred to as you readers directly and won't be given an official name. This is basically to capture some of the magic I personally got from Skylanders at the fact that hopefully in this written format, it will give a similar feeling to when we sent Skylanders back to Skylands.

Number 2, while the Portal Master is meant to be a projection for you readers, it is likely going to be impossible for me to avoid giving them a full character, so they will be largely based off of me from back when I played Skylanders while they were coming out. This also includes the Portal Master character specifically being a child, though I probably won't establish a specific age for them.

Number 3, I want to leave some openings for you all to effect the story of Skylanders in general. As a result, at the end of a chapter before a mission begins, I would like you all to name 1 Skylander you would hopefully like for me to use in a chapter once they become available in this story. So for the next chapter, where the first mission happens, you can currently pick between Spyro, Trigger Happy and Gill Grunt as the Starter Pack/first Skylanders of the Portal Master.

Number 4, which idea do you all think I should go for regarding Skylanders being unlocked? Because with the Skylanders being on Earth, I want to hear any mini adventure you can all think of for how the Portal Master will find the other 29 Skylanders currently on Earth to send back to the Skylands. And for anyone concerned about there probably being 29 chapters for this alone, do know that the mini adventures that can be written on Earth can include multiple Skylanders being picked up on these mini adventures instead of just 1 at a time (also as a note, these will include the minis/sidekicks, though for variants like Legendries and the Magic Items, I already have plans for those and how they will appear).

And finally, number 5 is more a question than anything else. Should I make the Adventure Packs in this story their own chapters to go through, or should I only do ones that can actually be important to the overall plot? And if it is a yes to including them all, when should I have the Adventure Packs take place?

Well, with all of that done, there is nothing else for me to say here. Only that I hope you all are excited for this nostalgic idea from me, and I hope that you Portal Masters all look forward as we go on this journey into Skylands together!