Logan saw Dragonspyre as a place to learn or be severely punished. Everyone was a rebel in the first year. Most were rebels in the second. In the third only a few remained rebels. In the fourth and beyond, everyone had had enough punishments to realise rules existed for your safety or just for the staff's fun. The resources were okay, and the staff weren't as evil and scary if you behaved. That was until one day when Logan was walking with his mate, Kyle, past the death tree when an earthquake of gold rippled through the tree, causing a huge groan and a huge shock for Logan & Kyle. They ran to the nearest classes, myth & fire, to warn the students. They then emptied the rest of the classes when a huge gold earthquake ripped through the classes. Kyle led the students towards the Great Spyre, where the dragon titan would protect them, but Logan instead went to the Basilica, promptly running straight to the Atheneum to save the scrolls & librarian. He crashed through the doors, only to be devastated to see a chasm of gold where eternal knowledge used to lie. He then ran back to the Basilica and to the Necropolis. But through the portal was only a trail of tiny islands surrounded by a golden void. By the time he returned to the Basilica, the portal to the academy had been destroyed by gold. He turned and saw his last hope: the stairs to the Spiral door.
He ran to the door, until halfway up when there was a huge golden gap. But Logan wasn't prepared to give up yet. He leaped across, fingertips away from whatever lies beyond the gold, when he climbed up the rest of the stairs. When he saw the door, hope disappeared.
The gold tremors were being blasted from the door. Tendrils of gold flew in the air around it. When it 'saw' me, the ocean of gold stopped, flew towards the door, as the tendrils combined to create a huge finger. It then reached towards Logan and touched his forehead. Then the world suddenly went blank.
He had been blasted from time. And the Dragonspyre he knew, and the one he'll arrive in, will be very different indeed.
1,000 years later
Logan woke up, not knowing where he was. He looked around, and saw a world of fire, magma and destruction. Not the world of order and discipline he knew. He looked down the stairs, and saw a still broken, but more fixed than last time he saw it staircase. He walked down and saw the portals had been replaced, but unfortunately, where the Grand Spyre used to be, lay a sleeping dragon, but there were no people there. No living creatures anywhere. Until he turned when a voice called:
"Can I help you?" Cyrus asked.
"Who are you?" Logan replied.
"Don't be silly, the only way you could be here is if you're from Ravenwood, and you'd know me then. What's your name?"
"Logan Duskdawn. And you?"
"Cyrus Drake."
"You bear the name of the sacred beast. You must be strong indeed."
"You speak like my brother, and Professor Lincoln has no record of a 'Logan Duskdawn'. As far as I know you're one of my brother's puppets, so that's why I must stop you from disturbing the ancient world of Dragonspyre."
"Ancient? This world won the title of best academy in the Spiral two months ago."
"Dragonspyre has not had an academy for a thousand years! Your information is flawed."
"No, your's is. I am Logan Duskdawn, student of Dragonspyre, Archmage Necromancer & pupil of the Dragonspyre death tree. You are a strange man, claiming to call my academy ancient and saying I'm evil."
"Fine, I'll company you to the death tree, and see who he knows."
Logan & Cyrus then walked to the academy and walked to the death tree. The tree stopped pulling faces at Ashley when he saw Logan.
"A survivor? I haven't seen one like you a thousand years. Are you Logan? Logan... Duskdawn?"
"Yes Necroto, I am, you remember me, and Kyle?"
Cyrus was shocked:
"You know the tree's name? Only Merle, I and Necroto himself know that name!"
"I'm afraid Cyrus," Necroto droned, "That you are not as special as you think. Meet Logan Duskdawn, the best necromancer of Dragonspyre Academy."
"Necroto," Logan asked, "Do you remember the day that the 'gold' attacked?"
"Ah, yes." Necroto replied, "Very dark time magic, it seemed intent on chasing you only. When you left, it left. Unfortunately it took all the schools but me and Ashley with it."
"Joseph Duneblade & Olivia Chaosbreeze." Logan said, before clutching his wand and disappearing into black ash.
