I made my way through the night, my grief at what I had seen almost enough to make me give up. I knew Perrin would be here now, but I still wished she didn't have to die and give up eternity. The pull eventually took me far north and I could see two mountains far higher than the range around them. I knew what these were. In dragon school we were taught about the twin peaks far to the north, the highest mountains in the known world. The taller one was six miles high and at the very top were the ruins of the northern dragon temple, Icera's old home. However I was drawn to the shorter one, however at two miles high it was still a daunting challenge to get to the top.

As I made my way up, It made me appreciate how strong Icera and Byancyra were, halfway up, my wings couldn't work in the thin atmosphere. To think they were able to fly at the top of the other mountain means their wings must be incredibly strong. I ended up stretching my powers to the limits and teleported the rest of the way.

Once at the top I saw a large wall. It appeared to be a city and I was drawn straight to it. As I reached the gates, two cheetahs intercepted me. "Halt!" one of them said. "What's your business here?"

"I'm looking for someone." I told them.

"The city's closed until construction is completed to all except inhabitants. You'll have to leave."

Not about to leave empty handed, I tried to teleport, but found my mana blocked. The gate had some sort of barrier! So I did what anyone would come up with, I backtracked a few paces till I could feel my mana return and using my shadow cloak, became invisible and since I couldn't fly at this height, I transformed to my human form and ran straight at the wall, once I got to it, I focused more mana on an attraction to the wall and my feet and ran straight up and over. Once clear, I jumped off, Returned to dragon form and glided to the ground, where I uncloaked and went in search of Perrin as the pull stopped when I entered the city.

After a few fruitless hours of asking around, I saw two dragons in a fight. Before I could do anything however, one of them took a serious blow to the throat. The winner took off in the confusion and I heard someone yell "Get him to the hospital!" I realized I would be able to help, so I came up to the dragon holding the wound shut and asked where the hospital was. When she told me I grabbed the dying dragons arm and teleported us to the hospital. There were orderlies outside that took us into the healing area. As the healing dragon came out, I was told to leave. Just as I was, I noticed something… interesting about the healer, but couldn't quite put my hand on it.

After a few minutes, the wounded dragon and healer came out. The dragon thanked me for getting me to the hospital and went on his way. The healer came up to me.

"You're lucky" she said. "Much longer and he would have bled out."

"It was the only to do." I said. As she turned around, I noticed something that made me hold my breath.

There was a mark on her ankle the shape of a crucifix with a ring around the intersection.

"Wait!" I called. She turned around. "How about after you get off, me and you go somewhere?"

She got a sad look. "Thanks, but there was someone else a long time ago and I still haven't let go."

I smiled at her, "About a year, right?"

She gave me a surprised look. "How do you know?"

I walked up to her and showed her the ring on my tail. "Does this look familiar?"

She examined it. "A little, why?"

I got near her and whispered: "Shark repellent".

She looked confused for a moment before her eyes lit up. "James?! It's really you?"

"Yep, I've got a lot to tell you about." Before I could start though, she ran up and hugged me. Just as I was going to open my mouth to speak, she kissed me, I've never thought of dragons as having lips, but apparently they do. It was just as I remembered. Her lips were soft as you could imagine and her affection filled my soul. I then realized I could feel Perrin's emotions as well as my own. I wondered if she could feel mine, but decided to inquire later.

When the kiss was over, she looked into my eyes with a look of sadness. "It's been so long." She said. "The last time I saw you was at your funeral. How can you be alive?"

Now it was my turn to look guilty. "Well, you see for a human to get here, they have to reincarnate. What was the last thing you remember before coming here?"

"I just went to sleep, then I woke up here, why?"

"Perrin, there's no easy way to really say this so I'll repeat myself, to be here, you have to have reincarnated, as in your next life."

It slowly dawned on Perrins and you could see it in her face. "So wait… your saying I'm, dead?"

"No." I told her. "You died, but your obviously alive now." I could feel her mood lighten a little.

"So," I asked, "Where's Laura?" I instantly felt such great sadness coming from Perrin that it dropped me to the floor.

"James! Are you alright?" She asked as I slowly got up.

"Yeah, it's… something I'll explain soon. What's wrong though?"

"I haven't seen Laura since I came here." she said on the verge of tears. I had to use a mental technique from another dragon book I read once to shield myself from her emotions.

"So, She's not in the dragon realms?"

Perrin shook her head and I was overcome with relief, Perrin looked up. "What are you so happy about?" I found this strange, as I hadn't shown any outward signs of my emotions. (She must be able to pick up my emotions too.) I decided.

"Well," I told her "If she's not here, that means she hasn't died." (I wonder what happened in Perrins room between Laura and… yeah. I definitely heard a gunshot, but if he didn't shoot her, then what happened?) I thought.

Perrin seemed cheered up more by this, but I could still feel her sadness at not seeing our daughter for months. "Don't worry, we'll see her again." I told her inwardly hoping we never would considering what would have to happen to her.

Perrin and I left the hospital and as we made our way to the gate, I explained the current situation, how we were going to find Spyro and his family, and about Ōumĭ Jiā and his plans for utter destruction. As we passed through the gate I couldn't help but say hi to the guard who had denied me entry and laughed at his shocked look. We jumped off the cliff and glided the two miles to the flight ceiling at which point I led her back to the others.

I could see them in the distance I sent them a message that we were here in the form of a ball of light I threw to hover in front of them. Perrin was surprised by the sphere and I told her When we landed I would explain everyone's abilities. So naturally we had a race. She won. I was surprised by Perrins speed. I knew that her body combined with that speed would make her lethal in combat. (Mental note, don't get her mad.)

When we arrived, I introduced everyone. "Everyone this is my wife Perrin." Jacy and Kenji were surprised. "Perrin, this is Ryan, his element allows him to control plants. This is Kenji, my cousin." This time it was Perrins turn to look surprised. "His element allows him to control fire and wind, he also has magical abilities. And lastly, you know Jacy of course." Again, shock. "Her element is basically telekinesis; she also has access to dark magic." I said with a hint of aggression in my voice.

After that, we rested a while everyone became acquainted with everyone else. We slept there for the night and I lay awake for a while thinking about everything, Ōumĭ Jiā, Jacy's past, Spyro and his family, the missing guardians, and what happened between Laura and … I finally got tired and went to sleep by Perrins side.