I woke up and felt someone next to me; I looked over and saw pink. Everything from the past few days came rushing back to me and I knew where we should go next. For now though, I would make up for lost time by waiting with Perrin for everyone else to wake up.

I then realized I had my first restful nights sleep in a while, No real nightmares, and no worrying about having one. Instead, I had regular dreams of nonsense. It was a bit fuzzy, but I seem to remember something about a scurrying midget in an R2-D2 costume carrying a huge mushroom to help Luke and Leia Skywalker. I smiled at the silliness of it and snuggled closer to my sleeping wife.

The sun still wasn't up yet, so I decided to go hunting. I flew over a nearby wood and spotted some kind of large creature, I decided to try something I remembered Spyro doing before, I focused my will on the creature and dove into it's mind. I was searching for sentience, I found none, so rather than trying to dive on it I simply focused my light into a small beam and pierced it's heart, it dropped and I swooped in to bring it back. As I landed, I felt a presence nearby. I used this power I was making up (I wonder if any dragon can do this or just me and Spyro?) to search around me and contacted a dark mind with a low level of intelligence. All I could make out through the darkness is it wanted me dead.

Suddenly a voidling crept out of the bushes. I cursed to myself. The thing didn't resemble anything I had seen before and was hard to describe, the stone creature had no face and its lean body was constantly rotating, two of it's front legs and it's back legs looked like bear legs, but it also had a second pair of front legs that looked like joined spears.

I knew like last time my element and magic would be ineffective. The thing leapt at me and I rolled onto my back and kicked it, sending it flying into a tree. It got up incredibly fast and attacked again. I rolled to the side and slashed at it with my tail. My tail blade is harder than steel, but contact with the stone creature broke the last few inches off it. I screamed in pain and tried my best to keep my eyes clear through the pain. I then transformed. While I was still aware of the pain, it felt like it was somewhere else. I drew my tanto and hoped the diamond edge would hold up. The creature leapt at me, I ducked to the side and slashed as it went past. It fell to the ground in two pieces. I got up and walked over, "Sorry, no hard feelings. I: just don't want to die right now." I said and put my blade through it's head and it crumbled to dust and floated away on the wind.

I resumed my dragon form and instantly felt the screaming pain in my tail. Wincing, I went over, picked up the piece of my tail, and put it in my mouth. Then I walked over, picked up breakfast and flew back. When I got back The others welcomed me back with the surprise breakfast I had. When I landed and dropped the blade piece though, Perrin spoke up. "Big deer get you back did it?" she said with a smirk.

I glared at her, not in the mood for jokes. "No. For your information, I got mixed up with a voidling and this really hurts."

"Well come here then." She said as she picked up the blade piece. I gave her my tail and she put the pieces together. The crack between them glowed pink, then vanished along with the pain.

"Thanks." I said "What would I do without you?"

"Don't know, probably get yourself killed." She replied.

After Kenji cooked the meat, I decided to try something. "Hey Kenji?"

"Yeah?"

"Do you think you could envelop something in a sphere of air when you cant see it?"

He thought for a minute before nodding his head.

I turned to Jacy. "Do you think if I teleported you a few miles up you could figure out where we need to go?"

"Probably."

So Kenji put an air bubble around Jacy to shield her from the thin atmosphere and I focused all my mana into my teleportation spell. With a whistle, Jacy was gone. After half a minute, I couldn't hold her up there anymore and another whistle above us announced her arrival. "I know where to go." She said "Follow me!" and she took off southeast.

Jacy was at point while Me and Perrin flew next to each other behind her. Kenji and Ryan flew behind us, making a V formation. Something was bugging me so I asked. "Hey Kenji?"

"Yeah?"

"With your wings coming from your wrists like that, they shouldn't be big enough to support your weight, how can you fly?"

He laughed. "I guess you're not as big an Avatar fan as you claim to be. Remember how Aang uses airbending to fly his glider?

Now it made sense. He used his wind powers to create an updraft under him, pushing him up while he flapped his wings to create forward momentum.

We were nearing the coast when I felt a strange presence, they were intelligent, but unlike anything I ever felt. It was like a collective conscience. Then I saw them. "Guys, don't look now, but the insecticons are back."

The robots met us and transformed, Their grenade and mortar launchers tuning into pistols. Bombshell spoke first. "You killed our brother, now it's time we returned the favor."

"And this time, were not alone, alone, alone." Shrapnel said.

I felt the collective mind awaken and five machines drove out of the water. I cursed heavily. "Kenji, Jacy, Handle these creeps and watch out for bombshells cerebro shells. I don't want to have to kill one of you. Perrin, Ryan we're going after them." I said, pointing towards the trucks on the ground.

We left Kenji and Jacy to fight the insecticons while the rest of us went into what I knew would be our toughest fight yet. Just as we got there, the robots transformed and started stacking on each other. When they were done, We were looking at the biggest transformer of them all. "I AM DEVASTATOR!!!" it rumbled before opening multiple plates on its body and cannons came out. I put up a wall of shadow just in time as Devastator fired hundreds of lasers at us, they were absorbed by the shadows and somehow I felt as if they were fueling me somehow. I also felt an anger rising in me for some reason, but I dismissed it and dropped the shield to attack. Perrin went low to try and take out it's balance servos. Ryan flew behind it and tried to find weak points, I meanwhile started to fire a beam of light, but held it in, allowing pressure to build. Then after I had charged it, I released the blast, I was surprised and thought back to Spyro training me with light, My attack was identical to his, the beam was moving so fast, it hit itself from behind, creating a pulsing effect, I could feel space warping around it. I almost passed out from the sheer force of being so close to it.

It slammed into Devastator and splashed off its armor before punching through its chest and clear out the back. It hit the ocean behind him and there was an explosion of steam. I cut the attack and waited for it to fall. Far from it, I watched in horror as it started regenerating.

"BUG-BOTS GIVE DEVASTATOR NANOBOT UPGRADE" it rumbled.

I realized what it was talking about. It had nanobots in its body that would rearrange the atomic makeup of the air and turn it into metal, making Devastator nearly indestructible. My anger was out of control at this point. Strangely, I could feel a new presence; it was kind and loving beyond measure. I then realized what the anger was and that my light element was divine in nature. I channeled all my remaining mana into my anger and prepared to release it.

I could find no weak points and nearly got caught in James's blast. Me and Perrin had joined up and tried attacking its head. I felt a surge of power and looked over at James. His body was glowing white and I could feel enormous anger coming from him. I turned to Perrin. She looked at me. "Run." I said. We turned and flew as fast as we could past James. Just in time, I tuned and watched as he fired thousands upon thousands of bolts of light from his chest into the sky. They arced over and rained destruction upon Devastator. I've seen videos of WWII and it looked like each bolt created an explosion with the force of a 1000 Lbs bomb. When the light fury finally ended, there was a crater where Devastator once stood, but not much else.

Meanwhile

Me and Jacy were having a tough time against these guys. Jacy was easily deflecting the explosives, but we had to continually dodge lightning. I decided now was as good a time as any to show off my strongest power. I held out my right hand and the air around it started shimmering. A blade formed in my hand, but not just any blade, a keyblade. It was about three feet long, the blade a bluish gray with a heart engraved near the hilt. The teeth were shaped like the Japanese Kanji for "Light". (Imagine two windows next to each other) the hilt was gold with two hand guards on either side that connected the top and bottom. The keychain was shaped like the rising sun with the Kanji for "fire" in it.

I flew at Bombshell and slashed with my keyblade, which left a huge gash in his arm. He yelled in pain and fired a grenade at me. I channeled my wind power through my blade and slashed, creating a gust of wind that blew the grenade at Shrapnel, blowing a hole in his armor. Then I focused my wind AND fire element into my keyblade, a visible air current and stream of fire swirled around it. I backed up and slashed at him. As I yelled "Firestorm!" There was a blast of superheated wind that melted away at Bombshells body until there was a puddle of slag on the ground. I smirked and turned to face Shrapnel but it seemed Jacy had things covered.

Me and Shrapnel stopped fighting as we watched Bombshell melt. "NOOOOO! O! O!" Shrapnel screamed and he turned to me and charged me.

"Wrong." I said. I force pushed him into the puddle of glowing slag, he screamed in pain and sprang up, firing two grenades at me. I just shook my head and pushed them back at his crotch. I watched with amusement as he flew up into the air. As he fell I got an idea. I held him in the air and used my element to press on every side of his head at once. His head imploded and he fell to the ground in a heap. I thought it was over, but he got up, jerking the whole way. He shakily raised his gun. I sighed and focused on a spell I learned when I served the darkness. I opened my mouth and a black and red fireball shot out, hitting Shrapnel, His vocal processor damaged more than it was, he let out a shattered scream as the fireball hit and went out, but the effect then took place, starting at the impact site, his body turned to stone, then crumbled to dust which scattered on the wind. I laughed at how easy that was, then felt something… Before I could tell what it was, a malevolent force broke into my mind and ripped control of my body from me.

I watched as my sister turned Shrapnel to dust with disgust on my face. "Dark magic… when will she ever learn?" Then something happened to her, Her scales turned a dark blue, her wings became huge, her face lengthened and her front arms sucked into her body. She then took off and slammed into Kenji, trying to rip out his throat. I focused my will at her and tried to connect. (Jacy, stop!) The mind that responded wasn't the Jacy I knew, it was like every bad memory and negative emotion she ever had gained control. It responded not in words, but in concepts, Thoughts that couldn't be described with words. What I got was pure malice. It seemed the dark magic had separated her positive and negative halves and had released the evil side. (Jacy, don't make me do this!) What she sent back could only be described as a very rude way of saying "Bring it."

Kenji had managed to break free of Jacy's Wyvern body and I rushed in and grabbed her by the wings, somersaulted and threw her to the ground. She got back up and with surprising speed, Grappled me with her legs and latched onto my throat, I could feel blood leaving me. (#%*& it, you made me!) I told her as I stabbed he in the leg with my tail blade. She screamed and let go of me. It was then that I assaulted her mind again, trying to subdue this evil half. While I was unsuccessful, I felt a small shard of light amidst all the darkness. I communicated with it (Don't worry, I'll get you out.)

I withdrew from the darkness and led her on a goose chase, all the while trying to figure out how to free her. Maybe if her light and dark halves are separated, combining them will restore balance, like Yin and Yang. She caught up with me once and I almost got my neck snapped before Perrin flew into the fray and, using her wing blade, left a deep gash in Jacy's side. As I broke free, I got an idea, but it was risky. I've never done anything like this before. I focused my light and shadow energy, turned and shot a gray beam of chaos at Jacy, the moment it hit, I assaulted her mind one last time. The chaos enrgy pumping through her was effecting her mind too, I separated it into light and shadow again and attacking the darkness with the light energy and enveloping the glimmer of light in shadow, I recombined the energy into chaos, perfectly blending Jacys light and dark sides. I stopped the beam and left her battle torn mind to observe the results.

She quickly resumed her normal form and passed out. As she fell, I teleported under her and caught her, carrying her to earth.

As she slept, we set up a camp and prepared a meal. When she woke up I turned to her. "Good, your up. You OK?"

"Yeah." She replied. "What happened?"

"I was right. That's what happened." I said. "After your dark spell ended, your evil side took over." I sent her a mental image of what she looked like.

"My god, what happened."

"Oh nothing." Kenji said "You just went berserk and tried to KILL US!"

"Easy Kenji." I said. "She wasn't in control of herself. Remember how Cynder was in A new beginning?"

"Yeah, Yeah." Kenji said. "Now I'm starting to understand how Sparx felt."

I turned back to Jacy "Anyway, promise me you won't use dark magic until we can find a way for you to control it?"

"Yeah." Jacy said. "There's no way I'm going to turn into that… thing again."

We set off the next day, We had to go around the bay created when Spyro and Cynder blew the dam to halt the destroyer. A few days later we were staring at our next obstacle and the place where Spyro and the others were being kept. The Peace Keeper desert.