Me and Ryan were heading in the direction of the pull, the days went by flying mostly until one evening. Ryan called from behind me. "Hey James, what's that?"

I looked behind us. "They look like storm clouds."

"Yeah, but they're red!"

It was true, the clouds were blood red and gaining fast. "We should go on foot, It's not safe to fly in a storm." I called back. My words could never be truer, within the hour the clouds caught up with us and started pouring rain the second they were overhead. ( I don't know much about this world, but I do know this storm is unnatural.) I though as I looked up and saw blue and green sheets of lightning.

The storm only got worse and worse. We had to keep our wings tightly tucked to avoid being caught in the wind. Then the clouds parted to reveal the full moon. "RYAN!" I shouted over the wind "WASN"T THERE A HALF MOON LAST NIGHT?"

"I THIK SO, WHY?" He shouted back, even though he was practically screaming, I could barely hear him.

"SO HOW COULD IT BE FULL TONIGHT?"

We both looked up at the moon and saw the silhouette of a dragon. Suddenly it dove straight at us. "MAYBE IT'S FRIENDLY!" Ryan shouted.

I took a fighting stance. (Better safe than sorry) I thought. Turns out I was right. When the dragon got close, I felt myself shoved back by an invisible force. Because I was in a solid stance, I stayed on my feet. Ryan wasn't so lucky though, he was blown off his feet and in his tumbling, his wings opened, the wind immediately caught him and pulled him into the sky. Just as I thought he was lost, a vine shot from him and latched onto the ground. It then retracted, pulling back to earth.

Then Ryan spun in a circle, causing the grass around us to grow thirty feet tall, effectively blocking the wind. The dragon above us made a movement with its arms and we were pulled up into the air. Before we cleared the grass, I made a strong beat with my wings, sending me rocketing toward the dragon. Then I transformed to human form so I wouldn't be caught in the wind and drew my tantō. Just as the dragon pushed me back, I teleported behind it, retaining the downwards force the push gave me I came down on the dragon hard. I straddled it and held my blade to its throat. "Land." I told it.

When we were on the ground, Ryan threw some seeds at us; I jumped clear just as the seeds sprouted into leafy vines that bound the dragon. Unable to move she; as I could now tell it was female, was unable to use her strange powers. She was a dark copper color with a frill on the back of her neck making her appear like a triceratops. Further enhancing this look, she had a short horn on her nose. Instead of horns on the top of her head, she had medium length horns on each check that curved downwards. Her tail ended in a narrow, whip like tip.

"What was that for?" I shouted over the wind. She just looked away and said nothing. We couldn't afford to have her escape, so I stood on two legs and whacked her in the side of the head hoping I didn't kill her. Luckily, she was only unconscious as planned. Then, as soon as she was out the rain stopped and the sky cleared. We looked up in amazement and saw the moon was just past its half stage again. We decided to stop here and wait for this mysterious dragoness to wake up. When she finally did, we started asking questions. She wouldn't answer any of them.

"Fine." I said. "You've left us no choice." I went over and talked with Ryan for a minute. We came back over. I you won't talk willingly, we'll make you. I pulled her down and the vines moved so she was on her back, her legs stretched out. Ryan reached under her and put something under her.

"That's a bamboo seed." I told her. "The remarkable thing about bamboo is it grows remarkably fast. About an inch an hour. When it first sprouts, it's also razor sharp. If you don't answer our questions within three hours you'll have a punctured lung. In five, you'll be dead. In ten, we'll have a nice little plant to look at."

The dragon had a look of terror in her eyes. I leaned in close. "So lets begin. Who sent you?" She looked away. "Fine. I said. Just remember what's growing under you right now. We can wait. It won't be long.

Not even ten minutes passed before we heard her say "Ōumĭ Jiā." We turned to her. "What?" I asked.

"That's the name of my master! Ōumĭ Jiā! Now let me go! It hurts!"

"Not yet, we still have some questions. Who is this 'Ōumĭ jiā'?"

"He's a strong dragon, he gave me the power to capture Spyro and his family."

Ryan looked at me, then back at her. "What does he want?" he asked.

"He's trying to amass an army of evil and destroy the 'Hub universe' whatever that is. Please let me go! I can feel it in me!"

I turned to Ryan. "The hub universe is the world we came from. When someone imagines a world, It becomes a Separate universe, connected by a metaphorical spoke. Since they all come back to our world connected by these spokes, it's called the hub universe. If he destroys our world, every universe in existence will cease to exist."

I turned back to the dragon. I had just one more question. "What's your name?"

She turned her head to me, "What?"

"What is your name?" I repeated.

"I don't know! Ōumĭ Jiā made me forget! Please let me go!"

I got an idea. Using light in one hand then trying and succeeding to use shadow in the other hand, I put my hands to her head. "Does that help?"

"Yes! I remember now! My names Jacy!"

I jumped up and stood back. "WHAT?!" Jacy? The (censored) are you doing here?!"

"What are you talking about? You put me here!"

I got closer to her. "Jacy, It's me. James."

Jacy stopped trying to free herself and looked at me. "You lie. My brothers dead."

I just shook my head smiling. You used to be human, then you woke up one day in this world and body. Your favorite singer is Taylor Swift. You're practically in love with Taylor Lautner. You had a blue DSi and our cats were Gizmo and Boo."

She stared at me for half a second before saying "It really is you. How'd you get here?"

"Same way you and Ryan here did. We were killed and woke up in these bodies."

"Wait a second, I'm DEAD?!" She shouted.

"No." I said. "It's more like… reincarnation. Are you gonna attack us again?"

"No, whatever you did broke Ōumĭ Jiā's spell over me."

I leaned in close to her. "By the way, have you ever heard the word 'psychosomatic'? It means 'all in your head'. You were never under torture. That's a rock under you, not a bamboo seed." I used my tail blade and cut the vines holding her. And she got up. "Well, normally I'd be Po'ed that you did that to me, but you saved me so I'll let it slip this time."

"Well considering all this is mostly your fault, you wanna help us rescue Spyro?" I asked.

"Sure! Plus I know exactly where they are."

(Awesome,) I thought (Cue Final Fantasy music, 'Jacy has joined the party!')

"Well," I started "For right now were going somewhere else, I'm being pulled by something, the last time I followed the pull I ran into Ryan. So My guess is there's someone else we need to meet first."

With that we headed off. A chaos dragon, a nature dragon and what Jacy called a 'force' dragon. She explained how she could move things by thinking it. "That's called "Psychokinesis'." I told her.

A week later, I could feel we were about halfway there. We decided to stop for the night.

"Hey, guys?" I said. "How 'bout a sparring match?"

"Alright." They both said.

"I'll watch you two go at it first, then fight the winner." I said.

I used my light to burn the outline of a battlefield on the ground. It slightly resembled a basketball court and was a little bigger. They took their positions on either side of the field. "Aright, I'll judge." I said. "No finishing moves, and non lethal force. We don't want to be killing each other. Alright, GO!"

Jacy flared her wings and Ryan was pulled of his feet, dangling in midair. Then he was slammed into the ground. Jacy then pushed him through the dirt. Before he went out of bounds though, he threw a seed that hit Jacy in the forehead and sprouted into a flower that glowed red. Jacy was in some sort of pain from the flower. This distracted her enough for Ryan to get back to his feet. Then he attached a seed to his tail, it bonded with him and grew into a thorny vine. He whipped his tail, causing the vine to hit the ground and tear through the dirt toward Jacy. She voided it just in time and countered with another push. Ryan was ready this time, he jumped with the push and a line of bamboo sprouted behind him. He hit it, causing it to bend and rebound him toward Jacy, He spun in midair, the whip swinging toward Jacy, She jumped back but should have ducked, the whip hit her in the face, leaving a red line that dripped a single drop of blood. She recovered just in time to se the whip come back and hit the other side of her face, leaving another line.

Again the whip came around, but she tilted her head, causing the vine to wrap around her cheek horn. She then yanked and force pushed Ryan at the same time. Ryan spun around and the vine was ripped from his tail. The push and pull canceled each other and he fell to the dirt facing away from Jacy. He quickly got up and got a safe distance from her, then stabbed his tail into the ground. Suddenly a mass of trees sprouted from underneath Jacy, knocking her high into the air. She opened her wings and took flight, but the trunks followed her, playing a dangerous game of aerial tag. Then the trees stopped growing, Jacy looked back to make sure they weren't following her. When she turned back, Ryan was in the air in front of her. Suddenly they were both wrapped in the same vines. Their wing pinned to their sides and Ryan pinned face to face with Jacy.

"What are you doing?!" Jacy shouted as Ryan's momentum still carried them up.

They started to curve back toward earth, headfirst. "You ever watch Naruto?" Ryan asked. They stated spinning at a great speed. "This ones called Primary Lotus!" The vines released them a fraction of a second before they hit the ground. And Ryan opened his wings as Jacy hit the ground with huge force. Ryan landed next to me "And that's how it's done."

When the dust cleared, a small dent in the ground was visible. Jacy lay there, unconscious but alive. We waited for her to wake up. When she did fifteen minutes later, she zigzagged to us and flopped over. "Ok, you won." she said.

Ryan and me took our places. I analyzed his strengths and weaknesses. Most of his stronger plants were in that bag of his, but he could still manipulate plants already on the ground, including bamboo, those trees he made and the grass. Plus whatever weeds were around. I could somehow get the bag from him, I could at least disrupt his strategy, however that was unlikely at best. I decided I had to go fast and put him down before he could launch a powerful attack. "Ready?" Jacy yelled. "Go!"

Immediately shot a salvo of energy balls at him, powered down to a level I hoped would only stun him. He dodged and to my dismay, got a single seed out of bag and put it on his forehead. It sprouted and grew like a fungus, spreading across his entire body in a transparent skin. I shot him with a blast of light. He made no attempt to dodge and the blast hit, but had no effect, instead the plant glowed momentarily before fading back to transparent. "Ha!" he laughed. "This is the Hypersynthisis plant! It'll absorb all light in the area and is commonly used to darken a room. Your element is useless! Never thought I'd use it in a combat situation though…" Then he pulled seven seeds out, they attached to the base of his tail and sprouted into seven thorny vines the length of his tail.

With my element out of the question, I decided to go close range, I stood up and ran at him, I was now twice his height, but the vines gave me no opening. Whenever I cut one, it just grew back to its original length the battle was going against me and I was forced to drop to all fours to take a defensive approach, then he got through my defense and hit me hard with three vines twisted together. I flew off my feet and landed next to the tree. Then I got an idea. I got up and shot a blast of light at him, again, the plant covering him absorbed it, but it provoked him into attacking. I held my ground. He leapt at me, the vines twisting together to form a web that swept at me. Just as he was about to hit, I flared my wings and loosed a flare of light, it blinded Ryan and I jumped straight up, then kicked off the tree, landing several feet behind Ryan as the vines hit the tree and their thorns stuck in the wood.

Ryan tried to escape and called to him. "Hey, If your plant likes light, what would happen if there wasn't any?" with that I shrouded myself in shadow, then did something I never tried before, I partially turned to smoke, then I flew at him, passing straight through him and I heard a scream. When I came out, I solidified and looked back at the wailing. The plant was screaming and shriveling. Eventually it died and fell to the ground as a husk. Then I jumped in the air and when I was directly over Ryan, shot a beam of energy from my mouth, shoving him into the ground and bowling out the earth. I dove straight down and as he got up, put my tail blade to his throat. "I win."

After our fight, we had dinner that Jacy caught, a deer. Then we went to bed.

When I woke up, I was in a house, in my human body. "(censored) I hate these dreams!" I got up to see where I was and who would die next. I left the room I was in and recognized the house as my aunt and uncles. Then I remembered everyone who died in these dreams so far died in real life. I ran to each room, trying to prevent it, Finally I got to my cousin, Kenji's room. I opened the door and saw he was asleep with no one inside. I breathed a sigh of relief. Then my ears were pounded by a gunshotbehind me and I watched as my cousins head exploded. I swung my elbow behind me and made contact with the assassin, then I swung around and delivered a kick to his head, he fell to the ground and the gun left his hand, I picked it up and aimed it at him. I couldn't see his face, but he spoke again and this time I recognized who he was. "You can't kill me, this is our job. Otherwise there' s no hope against Ōumĭ Jiā. I dropped the gun and stared as he stood up and held his arms out, a ball of black energy appearing in one hand an a ball of white energy appearing in the other. When the balls were brought together, a beam of spiraling black and white energy shot out and formed a vortex in front of him. I could see the dragon temple on the other side. Once through, the portal closed and I woke up.