It had been three months since the rescue of Spyro, his family and the guardians. I had learned more about myself than I had ever thought possible. The person I thought I was never really existed, instead I had heroic blood and a greater role in this world than I had imagined, but more of that later.

Everything was settling back down, true, there were still skirmishes with Ōumǐ Jiā's forces, but now that everyone was back they were annoyances at best.

School was going well, When I showed Spyro my shadow powers, he was extremely surprised and added Cynder as a teacher. I had learned to control both my light and shadow furies and how to wield light and shadow simultaneously. Jacy's force element and Ryan's nature element were as unique as mine and so were given special tutelage. Ryan had pretty much mastered his element and Jacy was getting stronger every day. She could now use her element with the same dexterity as her own hands. Ironically enough; Spyro became their student to learn these new elements. He was learning, but at a slow pace due to their arcane nature. Jacy was under the watchful eye of various scholars and spellcasters as she learned to harness her dark magic with being corrupted. Beyond his strange appearance, Kenji was not much different than other dragons and so was in the normal classes. Ryan was spending all his spare time wooing Selena with moderate success. From a third perspective, it appeared she liked him back but wasn't aware of it.

One day, when I was sparring with Cynder, Spyro judging the competition I called the match short.

"Spyro, Cynder, there's something I need to talk to you about. Meet me in my room with your kids in ten minutes."

I returned to my room to find Perrin there, looking through my books. In addition to the ones I owned as a human, I had collected several about the history of the dragon realms. "Hey, Perrin, how's the medical training?"

She looked up at the book she was reading "Meh, I got training at Neo north, that city you found me in so there's not much I have to learn."

"Alright." I said "Listen, Spyro, his family, Jacy and Kenji are coming over in a minute and I need you all to hear something, Alright?"

Just then there was a knock on the door. "Speak of the devil." I said and opened it. They all came in, Spyder accompanied her fiancé, Fever.

"Alright, What'd you call us for?" Kenji asked.

"Hang on, I sent a message to Sparx, he needs to hear this too as he's Spyros step brother. Wanna listen to some music?" I walked over and plugged my MP3 player into the homemade speaker Selena, fever, Zoulu and myself made and we listened to my collection of songs from the Spyro games I downloaded. XD After the adult Cynder theme was over, Sparx flew in through the window.

"Hey James, you called- whoa, it's a party!"

"Alright there's something I need to tell you that has to do with all of you." I said. "You remember that day we all saved you from the eastern temple ruins? Well before we traveled to the past, We came in to see you dead from torture, my darkness took over and I killed everyone. When I snapped out of it, I passed out and woke up on the White isle.

This got Spyro, Cynder and Sparxs attention. "Did, did you se him? Did you see Ignitus?" Spyro asked.

"Yes." I told him "And he told me something that he said not to tell anyone until I thought you were ready. First off, I figure only dragons that have had direct contact with the convexity realm can wield it and have a "dark" form. I've never been there, yet I became "Dark James" when I killed everyone, so that means I must have inherited it. He also told me of how you two lost a silver egg the very day I was conceived."

After a minute of puzzling it over, Cynder looked at me as if she'd never seen me before. "You mean you're… Oh my god." Then she ran over and hugged me. "Oh, thank the ancestors! I never thought I'd see you again! Spyro, remember that egg we lost in the portal all those years ago?"

"Yeah… no way, it's you?" He said.

"Yep, that's how I can use two elements."

"Wait, what's going on?" Perrin asked.

"Honey, Spyro and Cynder are my birth parents. 19 years ago they lost my egg in a portal and it ended up in our world, transformed into a human egg, and implanted inside DeAnna."

"So, wait. You're not my brother?" Jacy asked.

"Not genetically, no. We're technically step siblings."

Perrin had a shocked expression on her face. "So, what does that make Laura?"

"Don't worry; she has the genetics of my human body so she's 100% human." Perrin breathed a sigh of relief.

My brother and sisters had mixed expressions. Zoulu was confused, Fever looked like he was restraining a laugh and Selena looked like she was going to throw up.

"Hey, Selena," I asked "Are you ok?"

"No." She said. "You're my brother and I-I was …attracted to you!"

"WHAT?!" Perrin yelled.

"Perrin, calm down." I told her. "I turned her down and we agreed to be friends, alright? I don't want there to be bad blood between you and this family too." I turned to Selena, "And Selena? You did nothing wrong, no one knew at that time and nothing happened, alright?"

Selena got a hold of herself and nodded. I turned to Spyro. "There's one more thing Ignitus said. Spyro, he was more than a friend to you, there was a reason he was in the forest that day you left, he was watching over his son."

Spyros face was pale and he sat down. Cynder went to him "Hey, you ok?"

"Yeah…yeah. I'm fine." He said. "I just always knew there was something between us." He looked at me "Did he say who my mother was?"

"No, that was the last thing he said before I woke up. Now that we know he's your father, we could probably find your mom by asking around though."

Kenji spoke up this time. "So… if you came here because your parents are dragons, does that mean our parents are…"

"No." I said. "There is one more thing I need to confess. I've already told Ryan this and he was mad at first, but my motive settled him down. Do you remember those dreams I told you about where I watch you die? Well I saw who he was and couldn't tell you."

"You knew all this time?" Jacy said. "He, no wonder he was mad. Who was it?"

"Jacy, that's not why he was mad, It was… me."

Everyone in the room got silent. After an excruciating minute Perrin was as the first to speak. "You? You killed me? How the hell could you do that?!"

"To save the world!" I yelled. Now everyone had the look they had when I first arrived in the dragon realms, like I was crazy. "Ōumǐ Jiā is far too powerful for me, or Even Spyro to take on alone." I said "So I had to bring two people I trusted above all else and two people I knew with a lot of knowledge about the games here to help. When all this is over, I can send you back if you want, but I need your help, please?"

Perrin, Jacy and Kenji looked at each other for a moment, then one by one they agreed to help. After everyone had left, I turned to Perrin. "I've gotta go now."

"Where to? She asked.

"Where else? Your world." I responded.

"Oh. Your going to do it now, huh?"

"Yeah." I turned to the window and gathered a ball of light energy in my right hand and a ball of shadow in my left. I shot the two beams and where they hit there was a flash and a vortex appeared. It was white with black rings that started at the center and grew outward. I turned back to Perrin, "See you on the other side."

She frowned. "Worst. Joke. Ever." I shrugged and transformed into a human before stepping through.

When I got out, I was in downtown Sherman. Outside Academy to be precise. I walked in and ignoring the looks I got at showing up in a Kimono and a sword strapped to my side. I then went to the sports section and got a black jumpsuit and trench coat. I went to the changing room and put it on, I attached my tanto to the inside of the coat on my back, sticking out of the collar. I then went out and went up to the gun counter. The man looked at me the way anyone would look at a guy dressed like he's in the matrix and has a sword in his coat. ""Can I… help you?"

I looked into his eyes. "No." then I used shadows to bind him, I teleported behind the counter and got a small 9mm. and a home defense shotgun along wit a box of ammo for each. I then teleported to the roof and loaded them before continuing. I opened another portal to my house. Once there made my way to my sisters room. I just wanted to get it over with and took aim. She moved just as I pulled the trigger. I don't really want to get into details about the goriness, if that's what your looking for, go watch Saw. I heard something behind me and turned to find myself, two knives in my hands. Past me ran at me and I teleported away.

I opened another portal and went to where Ryan told me he lived. After walking the streets for a while I saw someone that looked like him. I walked up to him "Are you Ryan?" he turned around and in a flash I drew my tanto and ran it through him. He fell limply to the ground and I turned to face my past self. "It's your destiny." I told myself and teleported out of view.

My next stop was Kenji's. I hid in the bathroom until I heard myself taking to Kenji, I then stepped out and drew my pistol, I shot Kenji and felt an elbow in my gut, quickly followed by a kick to the face. The gun flew out of my hand and when I looked up, my past self was holding it. "You can't kill me, this is our job. Otherwise there' s no hope against Ōumĭ Jiā." I told him. My past self dropped the gun and I stood up and opened a portal.

Once through I patted myself on the back for getting the accuracy right. I was in the exact room I needed. I drew my tanto and approach Perrin from behind. It broke my hearth to have to do this myself, but there was no other way. She turned in time to see me, then the tanto. "What are you doing here? Wait! What?! No-" I grabbed her and quickly slit her throat. "I'm sorry." I whispered.

Just then my past self ran in and saw Perrin on the floor, dying. He ran to her She looked up at him and thinking it was me, whispered "Why?" before passing on.

I knew he was about to shoot me and dodged before he even raised his hand. I then bound him in shadow. "Tsk Tsk. James, we both know you know about time-space enough to know what'll happen if you kill me. Besides. I've got to finish here." I told him, trying to make myself sound as cruel as I remembered, but in reality, I wanted to cry as much as he did.

M past self spit on me, just like before. "You bastard! How could you even think of doing this? First Perrin, and now you'll finish?! She's just a two year old!"

I knew I couldn't kill my daughter and had other plans for her. "It's for the best." I told him and left to get Laura. I picked her up and raised the shotgun and blew out the window, then ran out to my parents house. It was a year after MY death, so they were understandably shocked to see me there, covered in blood with a shotgun and sword, holding my two-year-old daughter. I didn't want Laura to grow up with the wrong impression of her father, so I twisted the truth. I used the same cover story I used on my friends after I woke from the dreams. "I couldn't stop him." I said. "Kenji, Perrin and a friend of mine is dead, I'm next and I don't want Laura growing up in a dysfunctional family. I'm hereby transferring custody of Laura to you.

Very confused, they took Laura and invited me inside. "Sorry," I told them "But I've got a date with the reaper." And with that I turned and ran with all my dragon speed away from the house, in thirty seconds I was a half-mile away. "Last stop." I said to myself as I opened a portal to a year ago.

When I got through, I 'picked up' another handgun and found myself easily enough. I was at home alone, writing a Spyro story. Not remembering how I died, I decided to wing it. I kicked the door open, picked myself up by the collar, and pointed the gun to my head. My past self screamed something that sounded like "What the (bad word)", but I wasn't sure. I just said, "You have a destiny to fulfill;" then I sent him a mental image of this scene from his point of view, but with me as a dragon. Then I pulled the trigger.

I came out of the portal back in my room, transformed back to dragon form and slumped down onto the bed, exhausted and ready to puke.

"So?" Perrin asked.

"Horrible."

"Any trouble killing the people you're closest to?" She said with venom in her voice.

I ran to the window and threw up, quickly apologized down to Volteer and went back to bed and curled up.

"That bad huh?" She asked.

I groaned at her, not having the will to make a comeback.

To my surprise, She laid down behind me and curled her body around mine. "Still, I know why you had to do it and we're still alive. So I'm not angry. As long as you send me back like you promised if I want to go back, I'll be fine with it."

I looked back at her, "Thanks." I said, and moved in to kiss her, but she backed away. "You just threw up, remember?"

"Oh , sorry."

The next day I felt a hundred percent better. I prepared to go to school, but Volteer pulled me aside in the hallway. "James, there is something I must implore of you."

"Hey, I said I was sorry about the other day, I did something I wasn't comfortable with and it didn't agree with me."

"Compose yourself. That's not what I hailed you for. The other guardians and myself have a task for you."

"Alright, what is it?" I asked.

"You are to retrieve the new fire guardian."