The Peace keeper desert. It was a vast jungle once, full of life. That of course was before the night of eternal darkness. When Malefor returned, He personally led the attack on the eastern dragon temple, reducing it and the surrounding realm to dust and ash. It's said by travelers that if you travel the dunes at night, you can still hear the anguished screams of jungle life burning before the dark masters gaze. Some even claim to see creatures wandering the dunes, but upon approach, they vanish to mist.

"This is where they're being kept, the temple ruins." Jacy said. So we set off across the scorching hills. The heat made flying easy, the updrafts pushing us up.

The temple was once home to the dragon's main fighting forces. When Malefor attacked, they valiantly fought to the last dragon, it's rumored the last soldier was forced to take his own life for Malefors amusement. The desert that remained was named after these dragons in their honor. Truly this was a place of death and misery.

We made quick time across the desert and we saw a castle on the horizon just as the sun touched the horizon. As we got closer, I noticed something wrong.

"Jacy? Are you sure this is the right place? I cant feel Spyro, his family, or the guardians."

Without turning back she said "I'm sure, there's a crystal inside the prison room that prevents any mana from being used. So it's likely you can't penetrate the barrier."

"Ok, but shouldn't there be guards? Someone attending the castle?"

This time she did look back. "Yes, there aren't? That's very strange." We got to the castle with no attacks, ambushes or enemy encounters of any kind. Jacy pulled the door from it's hinges and led the way to the prison room. When we got there, We came to a door made of voidstone.

"Crud." Jacy said. "I don't have the key."

"Stand aside, stand aside." Kenji said moving in front of the door. His keyblade materialized.

"Uh, Kenji?" I said "Just a guess, but I think that's a bit big for the keyhole."

"That's right, You never played Kingdom hearts, did you? Well watch and learn." He said as he pointed the blade at the keyhole. A beam of blue light shot from the tip of the keyblade and into the hole. We heard a click and the door cracked open with a hiss. Jacy pushed the door open the rest of the way and a swarm of insects flew out and started attacking us.

Everyone started swatting at the biting insects until Kenji released a blast of hot air. We heard a sound like "Rice Crispies" and the bugs fell to the ground, dead.

"Well that was gross." He said and walked into the room. A moment later we heard him say "Oh god."

The rest of us pushed our way into the room. When I got in, I saw what he was looking at and puked.

There were Selena, Fever, Zoulu and Spyder were nailed to the wall, Spyder, Cynder, Icera and Sei were on the ground, and the guardians were chained to the ceiling. Beyond that, it was impossible to tell who was who as their scales, horns and other features were lying on the ground amidst a patch of dried blood. The wing membranes were cut from all of them and long ago consumed by the insects. The children were in a state of advanced decomposition and I won't go any farther than that. The adults appeared to have been gutted and rats were crawling in and out of the slashes. The guardians were reduced to skeletons, judging by the bowls shaped dents in the floor under each one, I guessed acid had been the culprit.

Everyone had looks of shock and disgust, along with sadness. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. (This has to be a dream.) I told myself and I used my light to burn myself. (Definitely awake.) I thought.

"How could this have happened?" Kenji managed to get out.

"Ōumĭ Jiā is ruthless. It's likely after I betrayed him he killed them out of fear of rescue, either that or he was amused by it."

All the while, My anger was rising. In moments, it had reached the level necessary for a fury, but quickly passed that level. Within a minute, it physically hurt. I had never felt like this before, I just wanted it to stop. Then I got my wish.

Suddenly I was looking at myself. So was everyone else. They were saying things, but I was deaf. My body was surrounded by shadow and my eyes were glowing white. (Oh no.) I thought. All I could do was watch as Kenji grabbed me and tried to shake me out of it. Faster than I've seen anyone move, my fist connected with his chest and he flew through the wall to fast to see anything more than a blur. Then I started floating and the shadows enveloped everything until there was a blinding flash of light.

When the light faded, I was back in my own body. I could hear a thundering roar. All around me was dust, I couldn't see anything. I could feel sand under my feet, not stone. Confused, I flew up, trying to escape the dust, but it only got thicker, so I tried to find the edge, after a while I shot out of the dust and after flying a ways looked back. What I saw was the most horrible sight I ever saw. A mushroom cloud.

"No." I said. "I didn't." In the darkness, I had created a nuclear explosion. I knew why I was standing on sand now. The castle was gone. Along with my friends and family. I had lost all hope and will. I stopped flapping my wings and submitted to gravity. How long I fell, I didn't care. All I remember was pain, then nothing.

When I woke, I was in a room that was strangely familiar. It looked like something out of the Spyro games. Then the voice behind me jogged my memory. "Welcome, young dragon."

I turned around and came face to face with someone I never thought I'd see.

"Ignitus?"

"Yes, it is I." He said. "I brought you here because it is the time for you to know certain things."

I laid on the ground and turned away from him. "I don't care anymore."

"Oh?" He said "And why would that be?"

"You're the frikkin chronicler, you figure it out."

"I know you don't mean that James. Yes, I do know what you did, that's part of what I want to talk to you about. You see, you can save them."

I raised my head to look at him, tears streaming down my face "How Ignitus? Even if there were a way to bring the dead back, the only thing left of their bodies is a cloud of atoms!"

"I'm not talking about raising the deceased, but preventing their deaths."

I put my head down again. "Just one problem, Only the purple dragon can use dragon time, and thanks to me, we're one short right now."

Ignitus came and laid down next to me. "That is what I brought you here to talk to you about. You are aware of you're telepathy by now correct? That too is an ability that previously only the purple dragon can wield. You, James are a very special dragon."

"So what? You're saying when I wake up my scales are gonna be purple?" I said sarcastically.

Ignitus chuckled "No. Let me tell you something you my find hard to believe. 18 years ago, a dragon couple had a single egg after their first clutch. Before the egg could hatch though, an evil we still don't understand came to the dragon realms, to protect their egg, they used powerful magic to send it through time and space to a safer place. This egg went to the past when humans still roamed the earth. It found the pair of humans that were the closest genetically to it's parents and transformed into a human egg. You can figure out the rest from there. This egg, James, was you."

My head shot up and I stared at his steel blue eyes. "Wait, what? That's impossible!"

"Let me show you something." He said and a book floated off a shelf, came to us, and opened. "The first page is about your time as an egg, but after that," The page turned and the words were English. "Your story is human. Go ahead, look." I flipped through the pages and glanced through and saw many major events in my life as well as things I long forgotten. Then, I turned the page and was surprised at the words, they moved from right to left and were constantly changing from English to draconian. I looked up at Ignitus. "What does this mean?"

"This is when you came back to your homeworld. You are unlike your friends, who are humans transformed to dragons. You are 100% dragon. The reason the words change is that your past, present and future all bend back into one another. A vicious cycle. You have done something that will affect your future self; you will then travel back in time, and start a chain of events that causes the cycle to repeat over and over into infinity. I have seen your dreams James. You know exactly what I'm talking about. What I can tell you is the cycle will have a positive effect. After the cycle is complete, the pages will return to normal."

"But Ignitus," I said, "What is the effect of the cycle?"

He closed the book and as it returned to the shelf, he said "The world's salvation."

"Ok," I said "But I still have another question."

"And what would that be, young dragon?"

"Who are my parents?"

Ignitus leaned so he was at eye level with me. "Think about everything I've told you thus far, you already know the answer."

I thought about everything he said and nothing came to mind until I remembered what he said about my shared powers with the purple dragon. I let out a deep breath. "Spyro and Cynder."

"You inherited you're mothers wit I see." Ignitus said. "Now do you see how you can prevent the deaths of your friends and family?"

I looked at him. "I-I think so, but I don't know how to use dragon time."

"It is quite easy." Ignitus said. Instead of focusing your mana through space, focus it through space."

"Ok, I think I can do it." I said. "Is there anything else I should know?"

Ignitus looked at the floor for a moment before looking back at me. "There was something I needed to say to Spyro, but never found the right time. I would like you to tell him when the time is right for me. Can you do that James?"

"Of course." I assured him. Then everything went black. The last thing I heard was Ignitus say "That's a good grandson."