When I woke up, I looked around and saw a mile wide crater where the castle, and my friends used to be. I sat there for a while, just taking in everything Ignitus had told me. After a while, I got up and concentrated all my will on the past. Then everything went grayscale and I saw another me come out of myself and lay down, after a while, he, I should say I, flew up into the air, then backward into the now fully formed mushroom cloud, I took off after myself and got there just as there was a blinding flash, when it faded, I was in the room with my dark self and my friends and who I now knew to be my step-family.
Just before Dark James triggered the explosion, I resumed time and with a huge amount of effort, teleported Perrin, Jacy, Kenji and Ryan a few miles away. We all reappeared in the desert as the flash appeared, followed by a mushroom cloud, moments later, there was a thundering roar as the shockwave ripped across the desert. Everyone stared in awe at what they were seeing. I saw what I was looking for, a tiny dot came flying out of the cloud, stopped, then fell to the ground, my past self had gone to see Ignitus, thereby starting the chain of events over again.
"What was that?" Ryan said.
"Yeah, sorry about that." I said, causing the others to wheel around.
"YOU did that?" Perrin exclaimed incredulously.
"Yeah, when certain dragons anger or sadness spirals of control, their darkness is exposed, they become like a berserker, unable to tell friend from foe and strike out at whatever or whoever they feel caused their misfortune. Only after their anger subsides do they return to normal."
"So wait," Jacy said. "If were out of control, how'd you save us?"
"Well, long story short, after finding out I killed you, I passed out-"
"But were alive." Kenji pointed out.
"As always you have a firm grasp of the obvious Kenji, now can I finish? Anyway I passed out and woke up in the White isle."
Kenji and Ryan gasped, but Jacy who had only played Dawn of the dragon, and Perrin who had never played a Spyro game in her life were unreactive. I explained. "The White isle is where the Chronicler resides. He's a dragon of immeasurable knowledge and wisdom, his job is to record the history of the world and watch over the realms, only intervening in times of great darkness. After Spyro and Cynder defeated Malefor, The late fire guardian, Ignitus became the next chronicler."
"So, I was talking to him, and he told me… I'll tell you later. I need to tell Spyro and his family too."
"In case you hadn't noticed, Ōumĭ Jiā and his #^(%!*& minions killed them," Kenji said "No offence Jacy."
"None taken" she replied.
"And now because of you, Their bodies are gone."
"Seriously Kenji, will you let me finish? Anyways, Ignitus also told me I could use dragon time and taught me how to use it. Now I'm done."
Kenji instantly let loose the skepticisms he'd been holding back. "But only the purple dragon can use dragon time."
"Ignitus said I was a special dragon."
Kenji had a look that said he didn't believe me. Alright, watch this I said. I picked up a handful of sand and threw it, then stopped time for all of us. The world went black and white and the floated, frozen in a cloud above us. "Now do you believe me?" I said, my voice echoing in the suddenly perfectly still world. After I was satisfied everyone had accepted it, I resumed time and the sand fell on our heads.
Now, If you need any more proof, we need to go this way, come on. I took off toward my past self. When we got close enough to see myself on the ground, Perrin exclaimed "There are two of you?!"
"No." I said. "I'm actually from the future. This is your James, who is about to go back in time to teleport you guys to where we just came from, saving you from the explosion." Even as I finished, my past self vanished into thin air. "Told ya." I said.
We landed at the edge of the crater and I turned back to my companions. "Everybody ready to save Spyro? We simply go back in time to before they were killed and save them before returning to our time." Everyone gathered around me and I reversed time. We watched as I reappeared, sat there for a moment before collapsing, a moment later and I flew into the sky. I created a cloak of shadows around us to shield us from the flash. When it was over, I dropped the cloak and we were in the prison room. I watched as everyone moved away from Dark James and the shadows vanished, then my past self threw up in reverse, which almost made me throw up again. Then we all left the room and the door reappeared.
After a while, the bodies' condition started improving. Before long, The children were alive. The world was mute but you could tell they were in agony. It seemed they were kept alive to wither away and mourn the deaths of the adults. Then, creatures I've never seen before came into the room. If you've seen the Lord of the rings movies, these things made the orcs look like fashion models. They came in and un-cut the adults stomachs and they sprang to life, writhing on the floor in pain. The scales then began flying off the ground and onto the dragons as the creatures un-scaled them one by one. Then, the horns, crests and other such features were restored.
That left only the skeletons hanging by the ceiling. We had to wait a while before the creatures came in again, when they did, they brought three vats with them and placed them in the dents I thought were acid burns. Then I watched in horror as I realized what happened to the guardians. A while after the creatures left, what I assumed was a few days their cause of death became apparent. If you've seen any of the "Mummy" movies then you're familiar with Scarab beetles. These creatures took much longer to devour the guardians. We watched as over the course of what was most likely a week they screamed in agony as the beetled fed, Spyro and his, my family were forced to endure the whole thing, unable to help, unable to do anything but cry.
When the guardians were whole again, the creatures returned and left with the pots. I gave it a few seconds, then dropped us back into normal time. "Ok Kenji, use your keyblade to get them down, Perrin, take guard. Ryan, look for that mana blocking crystal. Jacy get far away from here. If you come in contact with yourself, it could mess up the whole timeline, and we may never find Spyro in the first place."
My family and the guardians heads perked up at my voice and as my friends wet to their appointed tasks, Spyro spoke first. "James?! How'd you get here?"
It's a long, long story. But don't worry, I'll tell you in a few weeks." This obviously confused them. "Hey, is everyone Ok? No serious injuries yet?"
"No." Cynder said "The worst is the children." I looked over to see their body weight supported by meat hooks that pierced their wing membranes.
"Don't worry." I told them as I got on two legs and very carefully lifted each of them off the hooks and set them on the floor. "Kenji, how're you doing with those shackles?"
"I've got Cyril, Terrador, Icera and Sei." He said.
I Looked over, They were all on the ground, they were watching everything that was going on, but weren't getting up. "Hey, you guys Ok?"
"We'll be fine." Terrador said. "The constant torture has left us drained."
Suddenly I felt two things I hoped we wouldn't have to encounter. "Kenji! Work faster, we've got company! Everyone else to me!"
We all waited in the center off the room, My light breath charged, Ryan had some sort of huge flowers on his shoulders with spines coming out and multiple bladed vines growing off him. Perrin was next to me. Suddenly the door flew off its hinges straight at us. I let loose my blast, melting the door and as I swung it left to right, it disintegrated the wall and triggered countless screams. Then they swarmed us.
I could sense thousands of them, an entire army against three dragons! I used a combination of my breath attacks and melee combat alongside Perrin, who's graceful, yet powerful and unbelievably fast moves were decimating their forces. Ryans flowers shot a storm of needles into the crowd which appeared to be toxic as the creatures dropped like flies. When the needles were gone, the flowers flew off and exploded in the crowd with a cloud of noxious gas which killed dozens more. He then raced into the fray, vines and claws slashing.
Just when it looked like the battle was turning our way, more of them came rushing in and I realized what they were doing, they were going to put so many bodies in the room we wouldn't be able to attack! I retreated and charged my light breath. Perrin and Ryan saw the flare and ran behind me. Once they were clear, I cleaned the room of any bodies and the next wave. We ran forward to meet the next one when I felt her.
Suddenly the roof was torn off the building and disappeared and we looked up to se Jacy (The evil one from this time) "Kenji?" I asked "How're you doing?"
"Hang on… done!" He said behind me.
"Alright, take my place!" I told him as I took off after Jacy. Just as she launched her force blast, I dematerialized myself, turning to a column of black smoke that entered her body. Once inside, I forced my will over the hers and grabbed control of her body, then I turned and flew her away from the battle I had to think, because if I just left her out in the desert, the timeline would change. She would never fight us on the plains of Dormanzt and join us, then we would never rescue Spyro and the others… God, now I see why the chronicler told Spyro time is not to be used without the utmost care. As I was taking Jacy away from the battle, I wondered the others were doing.
I was starting to get tired, controlling all these vines was taxing on my mana so I had to drop most of them. Suddenly, a huge monster was on top of me, Just as he was going to bring his sword down, There was a flash of pink and he no longer had a head. I looked over and Perrin was next to me, her C shaped tail blade dripping with black blood. I shoved the corpse off me and got to my feet. "Thanks." I said before turning to the army.
"No prob." She said. Ok, I thought (1000 down, 5000 to go.) and indeed there were that many, the creatures went on for at least a mile. I realized why the force was so big, now that all of Ōumĭ Jiās enemies were in one place he would stop at nothing to ensure their demise. Then I felt something I never felt before, It was as if the Jungle were still alive, I could feel every plant, insect and animal that lived here before Malefor razed it to the ground. I could also feel every living thing in the desert for a mile. I was at one with nature. I shook myself to clear my head and returned to the battle.
After a while I became to tired to fight. Perrin was out of steam too and Kenji was getting there. We had expended way to much mana to fast. When all this was over, I would need combat training. Maybe I would go to that dragon school James was talking about. I looked around as Kenji fell to his knee. Out of strength, the keyblade vanished. The monsters surrounded us and put a sword to each of our necks, Including the prisoners. One of them said something in a garbled language but from the way he said it I guessed it was "Any last words?" The hopelessness of the situation combined with what they had done to The prisoners before caused my anger to explode out of control. I leapt at the creature about to execute me, but he slashed my chest, sending me to the ground. I looked down at my own blood and my anger rose, I tried to control it, but lost. Before I knew what was happening I was hovering in the air. A creature tried to kill me, but an invisible fore sent him flying back. I looked over and saw Jacy (The good one) hovering above us. She nodded to me and I released all my anger at once. Just then I felt the life and ex life of the desert like never before. I had found my Nature fury.
The ground started rumbling and suddenly countless bamboo trees sprouted from the ground and impaled hundreds of monsters. Various other plants rose from the sand, some of them attacking the monsters. The sand under our feet became fertile soil and grasses and weeds sprouted. I couldn't believe my eyes, The jungle was coming to life! As I watched, the corpses of the slain monsters liquefied to a green goop and reformed as bodies of various jungle creatures. We and the remaining monsters watched as hundreds of balls of light floated out of the ground. I reached out and touched one and suddenly, my mind was shared with a jungle cat. I withdrew my hand and the mind vanished. Then, the orbs flew into the chests of the animal corpses, which sprang to life and bounded away. Somehow my fury had restored the jungle to it's former state for about a mile, creating a large oasis in the desert. The final thing to happen was several red and green crystals sprouted from the ground. I smiled, the battle had just turned to our favor.