(James POV)

The super portal was unlike anything I've ever felt before. Other portals have a horrible feeling of limbo to them, but the super portal felt as if the energies of the universe were surging through your body. It felt incredible, but in an overwhelming way, I felt as if I would explode from the sheer force of it all, inside it was like a purple void, and unlike the other portals, we had to fly to get anywhere, thankfully it was a straight path.

I looked to my left, Beside me flew Perrin, my mate, my wife. Beyond her flew Kenji, though we shared no blood, as a human he was my cousin, I looked at him as a friend, not family. And I couldn't have a closer friend than him.

To my right flew Ryan, a friend I never knew in person before we came to the dragon realms. He was as honest, trustworthy and caring as they come, with a poetic side to boot.

Beyond him was Selena. My sister, Spyro's daughter and eldest child. A strong spellcaster. She was smart and always seemed to know the best course of action. Beyond her was Jacy, again while we shared no real blood, she was a sister to me. Me and her could sure get into a scrap, but in the end we had each others backs.

I smiled and looked forward at the white point that drew closer. As far as flying toward your destiny, I couldn't think of a better group of friends to be with.

The white point grew to fill our vision, then suddenly we left the purple of the portal behind us, along with the maddening energy within. We looked behind us to see Spyro, on the other side of the portal before it closed. We turned back and all yelled in surprise.

"You-you're all different!" I stammered. I then looked myself over, it seemed the portal had changed something about all of us. My scales had become a steely blue color. My markings remained black. I now had white crystalline growths on my shoulders.

Jacy had become more streamlined, with two horns that swept back before straightening out, her frills had disappeared.

Ryans wing spikes had grown sharper, more dangerous, his overall body was also more muscular, but not overly so. He now had small stone-like growths on his shoulders, much like Terrador and Kwaik. The ridges of spike on the underside of his horns had moved to the top, sharpening into blades. He also now had twin ridges of these small blades running parallel down his back.

Perrin had become slimmer, her scales less armor-like, her blades were smaller, but more numerous. Her bottom horns had shrunk somewhat and reversed their curve, pointing up along with the top two. Most surprising was that she now had a mane of auburn fur that ran from head to tail, the fur along her neck was the longest, giving the appearance of red hair.

Selena had changed a lot, her body was now the same body type as Cynder, her wing spikes had grown and tripled, her tail now had a fin on the top and bottom, her horns had also become less bull like and now went back in a branch pattern, much like an eastern dragon. On her body, shoulders and back she now bore the same markings as her mother in a pink darker than the rest of her body.

But Kenjis transformation was the most drastic. His large frill that resembled hair had become actual hair, the same dark green as before. His wings had migrated from his wrists to his back giving him a much larger appearance. His claws had also grown slightly longer, measuring three inches in length.

After the initial shock wore off, we turned to each other, commenting on our new appearance. I was with Perrin. "Well, this is new, eh?"

She nodded. "I don't know much about dragon standards, but the color suits you."

I smiled. "Thanks. I like the fur."

"Really? What about it?"

"The color matches your scales, and the way it runs down your spine gives me chills."

Perrin gave me an odd look. "You like fur now?"

I shrugged. "I guess after being a dragon for so long I'm starting to see females by a dragons standard. I dunno, all I know is you look beautiful."

Beside us, Ryan was practically serenading Selena. She was blushing madly, clearly enjoying it.

"Selena my lunar beauty, your radiance could capture the light of a thousand suns and-"

"Hey Shakespeare," Jacy interrupted. "Get a room." This earned her a glare from Ryan, which turned to a grin as Kenji slugged her in the shoulder. "Oww!"

"Dang Jacy, just 'cause you're as poetic as a six month old gallon of milk doesn't mean you need to insult others for it."

Jacy mumbled something about being sorry, and I interjected. "Sorry to interrupt, but we did come here for a reason."

The others nodded, and we looked out at our surroundings.

Anti space was exactly that. It was a white void dotted with black stars. It looked as if we were floating in space that was color-inverted, we could see black galaxies and blue/purple nebulae. Dominating the area was a massive white hole, which spewed out matter, where a black hole sucks it in. We took of towards it, to my right I heard a scream. Whipping my head around, I saw Kenji far above us, he slowly glided back down, clearly shaken.

"Oh man… By habit I use my wind element to push air under my wings… these new wings, they're much stronger, and so is my element… This is gonna take some getting used to." I smiled, remembering my first time in the air. I got a broken leg. But something puzzled me, Kenji's elements were stronger?

"Kenji." I said, "Use your fire element."

He shrugged and punched, instead of a fireball like he planned, a great firestorm erupted from his palm. He whistled. "Man, whatever was in that portal was good stuff."

We each tried our elements, while not any stronger, Jacy was able to affect objects much farther off. Perrin and Selena didn't seem to have any effects, positive or negative. Ryan had the ability to take his seeds and grow plants from pure energy, they were formed of light and the plants that used seeds for different purposes never seemed to run out. Myself my elements seemed to be easier to control and used much less energy than before. I could also feel my other abilities, dragon time and certain spells bubbling on the surface, like they would be incredibly easy to use.

Once we had become accustomed to our bodies a bit, we resumed our journey to the white hole. We flew fast and soon were passing random flaoting debris spewed out of the white hole.

I heard Kenji gas behind me and I turned to see what it was, what we found shocked me.

It was a giant hourglass, filled with a blue sand that seemed to flow like liquid as it tumbled about. "Is that…" Ryan started.

"From the temple of time…" I finished.

"What?" Perrin asked.

I turned to her. "That is from the realm where my grandfather, Ignitus, also known as Chronicler lived. His realm was destroyed by Ôumí Jiâ and him along with it. There must always be a Chronicler, He acts as a guardian of time itself, without him all sorts of things could happen."

And then suddenly it hit me. "Guys! I think I've figured it out! That white hole, it's spewing out everything that's destroyed by Ôumí Jiâ, he wants to destroy everything, so that means everything in our universe, and every universe will end up here."

"And, What's he doing this for?" Jacy asked.

"I haven't gotten that far." I said. I don't know enough about the guy to know why he does what he does.

Then Ryan pointed the way we came. "How's that for an answer?" We turned and it took me a while to figure out what I was staring at.

Much to far away to fly in a year, was an absolutely massive orb, everything that was spewed out of the white hoe seemed attracted to this thing, which glowed with intense heat from a million impacts.

"No way…" I said. When the others looked at me, I said "I'm no astronomer, but I know everything has a gravity field, the bigger the object, the bigger the pull, I also know that two things hitting at high speed makes heat, lots of it. And in this place where everything is reverse, I think the gravity field of that orb might eventually get stronger than the objects that make it up."

"Ok Einstein." Perrin said sarcastically. "What does that mean?"

Ryan interrupted "It means that its gravity will crush itself down to a point, growing denser and harder, compressed and squeezed objects also make heat, imagine if the entire universe were squeezed into a space the size of a marble."

"That'd be a lot of energy." Selena said.

I nodded. "Now imagine every universe, essentially hundreds of millions all compressed into a space the size of a marble."

"Wait." Jacy said. "This sounds like a Big Bang."

"Exactly." Ryan said. "He wants to create a new universe."

"Most likely he'll give life a head start and become a god-figure." I said.

"He wants to be god?" Perrin said in disbelief.

"That's my guess." I said. "I could be wrong though, just a guess."

"Well, either way," Selena said. "We've got a few hours left before Ignitus' deadline."

We nodded and within a few minutes could see the huge castle that was in the portal. Being the only logical place for a dragon to live in a place like this we headed there. It was then that we noticed a huge rock barreling straight at us. Before it reached us though, a small piece; and I say small in comparison, piece broke off and seemed to unfold.

Kenji was the first to curse. I didn't know what the problem was, but of course he had seen a destroyer before. As it drew closer and I could see the characteristic plant life and molten bottom I stared in disbelief. "No way, another? Where do these keep coming from?"

"From that rock, apparently." Jacy said. I shot her a look.

"Jacy this isn't the time, this thing is the Destroyer, an indestructible beast whose only purpose is to destroy the world…"

True to my word, the destroyer flapped its way towards us. And yes I said flapped. It was shaped entirely differently from the first two we'd seen. This destroyer was much smaller, it's "head" was made up of two fat antennae, its tail fanned out like a lobster, it had two legs underneath, one in front of the other. Its bottom was molten while the top was covered in grass with what looked like the mast of a ship jutting out on it's back were archways and a wooden bridge that seemed to keep it aloft as it flapped the bridge like wings.

The destroyer was about twice the size of a golem, and it opened its mouth, a jet of fire spewing out. I smiled as I used my shadow powers. A black disk came and swallowed the fire, a second disk appeared behind the beast, spewing the fire back at it

"Lemme take this." Jacy said. Her eyes glowed with her element and we all watched as the destroyer stopped and began to crumble, suddenly there were a series of explosions that ripped the beast apart.

We looked at Jacy, who smirked. "I remember something like this in that game of James', destroy all its crystals and it dies, right?"

Kenji laughed. "Wow, good thinking! I just wish I could have tried out my new powers on it."

Perrin was staring at the rock, "Uh… Kenji, you might get your chance sooner than you think, look!"

My eyes widened. The entire rock had started to split. When it was finished there were eight destroyers. They all floated towards us, a massive scorpion with a temple and forest on it's back, a whale with a house on it's back, One looked just like a golem, but huge. Another was a huge leech shape. Another was a huge four-legged creature with an equally massive building sitting atop of it like a massive helm. Another was a clone to the one that attacked during Malefors time. Another one was no larger than a golem and bore a tree on its back, and the last was simply a giant creature head.

"Holy…" I said. "That's a lot of destroyers, it's like a nest.

Kenji nodded, "Maybe this is where destroyers come from." I shrugged.

"Well," Ryan said. "They won't be around long enough to matter; I've got the small one!" He said as he took off, a glowing flower of light sprouting from his shoulder, shooting a spray of deadly barbs that now had much more force than a normal plant.

I turned to Perrin, who nodded; together we took the largest one, the scorpion, I opened my mouth and shot a blast of light, the orb had a higher concentration of energy, and exploded with massive force, tearing open a wound that bled magma. Perrin flew down and before I could stop her, breathed her element, healing on it. But as I watched, the wound tried to heal, but seemed unable to. She expertly dodged a tail strike and went for a second pass, this time her breath seemed to corrode the stone, revealing a dark crystal.

She flew back to my level. "I think, my element can both heal and decompose."

I smiled and nodded. "That could be useful, just don't do it when we kiss!"

She laughed. "Care to do the honors?" I nodded and gathered a large amount of light, then surrounded it in a sphere of shadow, then spat it out. The light bomb hit and in a flare ripped through the destroyers frame, revealing another crystal inside the temple. Me and Perrin flew down, hunting for crystals, always careful to stay at a safe distance.

Kenji had taken on the destroyer that was shaped like the first one, from the games. He raised a hand and a orb spiraling wind gathered. He then flew at the beast's mouth. It tried in vain to close it off, but Kenji thrust the orb forward shouting "RASENGAN!"

The effect was a blast of wind that obliterated the destroyers mouth, he then flew down the throat, summoning his keyblade. He closed his eyes and could feel an awakening inside the blade. The blade transformed into a blue double blade. As he entered the magma chamber in the heart of the beast he saw its crystal heart. He whispered "Blizzaja" and swung the keyblade.

Selena had attacked the giant head. Not the brightest move, it seemed immune to her spells and was fast. As she was trying to charge a spell, it rushed forward and took her in its mouth.

At first Selena panicked, then she realized this could help. She closed her eyes and pictured her old mentor, Sensei. I think this is desperate enough she thought as she tapped into not her energy, but all the energy surrounding her. She had realized when the fight began that her transformation had made casting spells much easier.

Now with her paws above her head, an orb of dark energy quickly grew as she sapped it from the dark crystals inside the destroyer. She smiled, James had told her of a similar power in another land, and she liked the name. So when it was large enough, she threw the Spirit bomb down the creatures throat.

There was a rumbling and a huge explosion that ripped the beast apart. When it was over she was hovering amidst a field of harmless rocks. She turned to see how the others were doing.

Jacy had her claws busy with the other four destroyers, she was attacking one, but then before she could crush the crystal with her powers, through the three would gang up on her. It was getting annoying.

But just then there was a beam of blue light crackling with lightning that ripped through the four-legged destroyer, there was an audible sound of crystal shattering and the beast stopped moving, dead.

She turned to see Selena, paws glowing blue. She raised them and a wall of light separated the other two from Jacy, so she could focus on the whale. Within a few minutes she had obliterated all but one crystal on the beast. She smiled and took pleasure in slowly cracking the last one, the destroyers death screams were cut off as its heart finally gave and shattered under the force of Jacys mind.

She turned to the other two, the shield was dropped, and as the leech destroyer got ahead of the other, the shield went back up. Jacy smiled, for the harbinger of the end, these things were sure easy to kill. Her smile dropped as she used her element and the leech vanished, seeming to dig into reality itself and vanish underneath.

Kenji actually laughed as his spell struck, the heart froze instantly, and the flowing magma in the chamber rose, touching it, the rapid rise in temperature from several hundred below to several thousand caused that one part of the crystal to expand faster than the others, and it fell apart. He could feel that the destroyer had stopped moving, and now the magma was going crazy. It was time to leave. He turned and flew as fast as he dared though the twisting tunnels.

Perrin and I had destroyed a lot of crystals. Eventually we couldn't find anymore, after avoiding numerous thrusts from the creatures massive sting, I felt a draining on the last attack. It turned to Perrin, who said "Wanna bet the last one is its sting?"

I faced the tail and shot a beam of light, it seemed to be unable to contain tall the energy within and rippled, arcing lightning as it tore through the air, in a left to right motion, the beam separated the tail from the body, which started to fall apart. Perrin flew up and as the tail passed mere inches from her she swung her tail around, the blade cleaving through the stone and shattering the crystal within.

Ryan had long ago destroyed his destroyer. Kinda Ironic he thought as he said that to himself. Having a tree on its back, he just made it grow until it's roots ripped apart the crystal heart within. He saw Selena helping Jacy and decided to Join them, the others seemed to have the situation under control. As he got there, Selena said "She's fighting two at once, one of which can disappear at will.

Ryan nodded. Sure enough the leech reappeared, only to vanish as Jacys powers activated. Rya flew down to Jacys' level and as the destroyer reappeared a dozen vines grew with lightning speed from Ryans bag and wrapped their glowing forms over the tear the worm had just made, preventing it from leaving again. He turned to Jacy. "There you go."

Jacy said nothing, but her eyes glowed and the creatures crystal heart shattered. As the dead destroyer drifted away They prepared t fight the last one when suddenly it exploded in a gold flash.

I was watching Jacy fight with Ryan, Perrin beside me when suddenly a gold orb flew out of nowhere and annihilated the last destroyer. All of us looked around for the source and when I found it my heart froze.

It was him, Ôumí Jiâ.