The Legend of Lailie: The Eternal Night (Promo Shorts)

**The Legend of Lailie: The Eternal Night Promotional Shorts** are short movies based on the beginning events of the *The Eternal Night* in *The Legend of Lailie* series. They are divided into three chapters, all of which were developed by Renkewitz Studios and published by Sierra Entertainment.

## Story

### Chapter 1

 File:Gaul and his Ape Army.jpg  In the dark region of the Mountain of Chajju, 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 are chanting 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 moment). Gaul then turns back to his Ape army and announces that their enemies, the Longmas, 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 around the gem resting 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 Longma Dojo, Patty eagerly guides Lailie and Sparx to the center of the room to help Lailie regain his elemental powers. Although Lailie feels uneasy about the training, Patty reassures him and explained how the training they were about to do will be fun. All Lailie has to do is stand outside the circle on the floor, and whatever he thinks of will appear within the circle. Patty shows an example by making a dummy appear within the circle of the Dojo by using her thoughts, then encourages Lailie to try using his elemental powers on the dummy.

 File:Patty training Lailie.jpg  Lailie gives in and attempts to breathe fire on the training dummy, but all that came out were puffs of smoke. After another try, which left him gasping for breath, Sparx flies to Lailie's side and laughs at his attempts. Patty encourages Lailie again, and after a few more tries, the hot pink Longma managed to breathe a fire blast on the dummy, successfully burning it to ashes. This surprises Lailie, believing that he has regained his Fire element at last.

Patty walks over to Lailie and happily remarks that the return of Lailie's fire breath was only a matter of time. The young hot pink Longma urges Patty to give him something more challenging, to which Sparx agrees. Patty playfully tells Lailie 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 Patty to look upon the figure she thought about. The hulking form of Gaul appeared, growling Patty's name menacingly as he raised his sword in the air, prompting Patty to scurry away.

Gaul turns his attention to Lailie and raises his sword, slashing for him, but the young Longma quickly jumps out of the way of the sword's blade. As Gaul turned back to Patty and stepped towards her, Lailie immediately stood in front of Patty protectively, urging her to end the training simulation to make Gaul go away. However to Patty's horror, she discovers that she couldn't. Lailie opened his mouth to blast fire on the Ape King, but nothing came out, making Lailie realize in horror that his Fire element hadn't fully returned. Gaul then hits Lailie away with his sword towards the other side of the room, knocking him senseless. The Ape King growls Patty's name again as he turns his head back towards the Longmaess, with Patty running for her life.

 File:Gaul's replica attacking Lailie.jpg

Sparx desperately calls out to Lailie to do something and that he was running out of time to save Patty. Lailie quickly regains consciousness only to see Gaul attacking a fleeing Patty by slamming his sword, barely missing her as the black Longmaess lost her footing by the force of the sword. The hot pink Longma stared at the scene quietly, seeing Patty lift herself up and look over to Lailie. As Gaul raised his sword upwards to kill Patty, a flash of light caught his attention and he turned back to Lailie, seeing him hover in the air, gaining a mysterious power. Using this power, Lailie flew over to Gaul and attacked him using his melee combat abilities, which was enough to make the Gaul imitation disappear, and Lailie fell to the ground.

Patty walks over to Lailie, astonished by his power. As Lailie stands back up and turns to Patty, the black Longmaess wondered how did that attack that saved them both, which leaves Lailie confused by what she meant...

At the Mountain of Chajju, the magic of Gaul's staff dissipates, and the Ape King shakes his head furiously as if he had felt the blows Lailie delivered upon his training imitation. He then declares that they must attack the Longma Temple. An armored Ape, along with a hot pink 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 Longma Temple, the Longma Dojo incident involving Gaul's training imitation against Lailie and Patty, and the Assassin making his appearance...

The scene switches to the night sky where Lailie is seen flying for his life through the skies while being pursued by a large swarm of Dreadwings. One of the Dreadwings was catching up to Lailie and made a lunge for him, but the young hot pink Longma dodges the strike and quickly dodges another. 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 Lailie from his nightmare, asking him if he was okay. Lailie finds himself back at the Longma Temple as Sparx, revealing to be the one who woke him up, asks Lailie if he was having another nightmare.

 File:The dark forces.jpg  Lailie stands up, facing the entrance to the chamber he 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 Skylanders with the yellow butterfly trailing after him. At the balcony of the main Temple, Spyro, Scootaloo, Mega Flavius, and Tempest Shadow are seen standing in the center of the balcony. Lailie calls out to Spyro as he arrives, urgently telling him  that he had another vision. Before Lailie can explain further, Spyro calmly interrupts him by telling Lailie to turn around, slowly. Lailie did so, only to get into battle stance as he and Sparx noticed that a large horde of Dreadwings had just arrived at the Longma Temple to begin their attack.

A pair of Dreadwings stepped aside to allow the Assassin, the leader of the Dreadwing army, to approach the Longmas and tell them to prepare to meet their doom, but his words are greatly muffled by his helmet, making him hard to hear. Lailie asks the Assassin what he said, and when the Assassin repeated his words, the hot pink Longma and the Skylanders 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.

Spyro commands the other Skylanders and Lailie to defend the Temple, and the Longmas began to counter the advancing Dreadwings using their respective elements. However, there were too many Dreadwings, and the Longmas were being overwhelmed. Lailie 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 the winged beasts to fly over to Lailie's direction in retaliation. Lailie attacks the attacking Dreadwings using various elemental moves, defeating them with relative ease.  Suddenly, two Dreadwings appear behind Sparx menacingly and the yellow butterfly fearfully tries to reason with them that he isn't the main course. As the yellow butterfly flees into the direction of the Swamp, the Dreadwings chase after him.

After defeating the Dreadwings, Lailie calls out to Sparx, wanting both of them to give the Assassin something to mumble about, but noticed that Sparx wasn't around. Lailie 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, Lailie 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, where Sparx had been hiding from the squadron of Dreadwings. After a change of dialogue, both companions began making their journey out of the woods.

 File:Lailie reunited with Sparx.jpg  After a while of wandering, Lailie and Sparx comes across a large lump of wood. However, Lailie notices something odd about the wood. As if on cue, the lump of wood came to life and stood up high, turning around to glare down at Lailie and Sparx and revealing itself to be the tree sentinel, Arborick. Arborick's awakening startles a swarm of bat-like dragons, and Lailie, knowing that they are danger, immediately urges Sparx to go on ahead as they both flew in between the legs of Arborick while being pursued by a large horde of bats. The hot pink Longma turns around and breathes fire on the approaching bats, succeeding in incinerating most of them but more of them still came. Lailie 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, Lailie instructed Sparx to keep going so that he can hold off the bats, and Sparx hovers nearby out of harm's way. The hot pink Longma 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 Lailie flew over to where Sparx went, only to see him in the clutches of the Assassin.

The Assassin tells Lailie that his time has come, but Lailie didn't understand his words due to his helmet, and Sparx thinks that the Assassin said that he 'finally found a plum'. Lailie blasted an electricity discharge at the Assassin, electrocuting him into releasing Sparx, who had felt the aftershock of the electrical attack as he was freed. The Assassin furiously told Lailie that this confrontation will go no further, but Lailie 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 Lailie, and the hot pink Longma 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 Lailie that he hasn't heard the last of him, to which Lailie 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

 File:HD Lailie Commercial The Eternal Night (Chapter 1, 2 & 3)

## Gallery

Lailie vs. the Assassin.jpgLailie faces the Assassin once moreLailie awake from his nightmare.jpgLailie looks at the setting sun upon awaking from his nightmareLailie and Spyro.jpgLailie about to tell Spyro about his visionSparx with Lailie during training.jpgSparx 'encouraging' Lailie in his trainingPatty with Sparx.jpgPatty about to give Lailie something 'more challenging' in his trainingLailie attacking bat-like dragons.jpgLailie attacking the aggressive bat-like enemiesLailie2-5.jpgStoryboard piece of one of the ChaptersLailie pg05 001.jpgThe storyboard piece of the Longma StatueLailie2-1.jpgLailie and Patty in a storyboard piece for the first chapter

## External links

* Renkewitz Studio Portfolios

* Official blog containing storyboard images of The Eternal Night videos

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