One year after the events of chapter 29.
There were a group of dragons gather around the super portal, which through some trial and error had finally been tuned to the desired time and place. As the final gem was activated, the portal fizzed and a white orb appeared in center of the arch, which quickly expanded in a disk shape to completely fill the archway.
"Ready?" one dragon said.
"More than ready, we've waited an entire year for this moment." Another said.
"I'm going to right? No bad guys, so I'm stick'n with you man."
"Thanks Sparx." The first dragon said. "It'll be just like old times.
The other dragons wished them farewell, a safe journey, or just smiled as the three walked and/or flew through the portal, which vanished a second later. Just as it did, one of the dragons, Flame said, "Uhh guys? With Spyro gone, who's gonna reopen the portal?"
No one spoke until one of them, Zoulu said "Oops."
It had been a year, and Selena had gotten used to the changes that went along with going through the portal. As a human she was tall, with red hair and pink eyes, which surprised many. Her body was curved, but not overly so, and she was clumsy, mostly because it had taken a long time to get used to two legs and thumbs.
She had been staying with Ryan for the past year, posing as a transfer student from Australia, and often enjoyed imitating the accent. Since no one she knew was in school, no one noticed that she never actually went to school.
Kenji had gone back to his life as if nothing had happened, they returned to the human time the exact moment they left the first time, so Kenji only had to explain what that gun sound was.
Much to his surprise while getting his old body back, he still had the ability to summon his Keyblade, as well as use magic, though only the very simplest spells. Whenever he was alone, he summoned Keyberdu and stared at the iridescent gray-blue blade and remembered all the things that had happened in the future where dragons lived.
Jacy had quickly resumed her old life, to her it was almost like it had never happened. If not for the fact that James was gone, life went on.
Perrin meanwhile had taken a very long time to adjust, It was a bittersweet time for her, on one hand she was once again with her daughter, Laura. On the other hand James was gone. While flying through the portal, she had turned back and watched as he sacrificed himself to stop Ôumí Jiâ. Perrin often stayed outside at night, staring at the night sky, imagining she saw the stars form dragon constellations. Not a moment went by that she missed him, and not a moment passed that she wasn't glad to be back with her daughter.
Laura naturally knew everything about her father, almost four by now she often asked about her father. And though her father was a dragon, she still liked butterflies.
However, this night they lay under the night sky they watched in awe as a rare phenomena occurred, the Aurora were almost never seen in Texas, but this winter night they were faintly visible. As they looked at the shifting swirls of milky light, they seemed to move with a purpose, from all over the sky the aurora converged and formed a small, dim light. This light then began to fall to earth, gently trailing light as it went.
After a few minutes, the light began to change course, heading toward the two. When it finally came to rest on the grass, small tendrils of light seeping from it occasionally Perrin could see it was about twenty feet in width.
"Mommy, what is that?" Laura asked.
"I don't know…" She said, partly to Laura and partly to herself. They watched the light for a moment before it began to change.
The light bent inwards in some places, and stretched outwards in others. Eventually taking the shape of a dragon. The dragon made of light then began to dim somewhat, it's colors becoming visible.
The dragon had black markings covering it's body. Its wings and belly were a dull gray, crystalline growths grew from it's shoulders and from the sides of each belly plate, as well as from above it's eyes, along the backside of it's jaw and one small one from it's chin, all a gold color.
It's swept back horns were black halfway up, then became gold the rest of the way to the tips. It's wings and tail had sword like blades on them, with the edge on the opposite side of what a sword would normally have. Lastly its eyes became visible, blue ringed with gold. Around the dragons neck was a large glowing blue crystal, that was attached by a cord to an almost armor like gold and brown back piece, which had bags attached that were full to bursting with scrolls. And the scales of this dragon were a steel blue color that seemed to reflect light without quite being mirrors.
"Dragon!" Laura cried excitedly. The dragon looked at her and smiled.
"Who… who are you?" Perrin asked.
"You don't recognize me? Even after a year, I couldn't get that last time I saw you out of my head. This aurora finally gave me the chance to bend the rules and appear to you indirectly."
Perrin stared in disbelief and after a moment finally uttered. "James"
He smiled. "I missed you. Both of you." He said, turning back to Laura.
"Oh my God!" Perrin yelled and ran forward to hug James, however she passed right through him, feeling charged for a moment before she hit the dirt.
James backed up and allowed her to stand again. "I apologize, but this isn't my body. I couldn't actually leave, so I did the next best thing and allowed the aurora to take on my form and voice so we could see each other."
"But… I thought you died." Perrin said, gathering Laura in her arms.
James shrugged. "Looks like the universe had different plans. When I… exploded I felt two pulls, one in either direction, I followed one of them and ended up in the Temple of Time. Turns out in Ignitus's absence a new Chronicler was needed. I feel that had I followed the other pull, I would have moved on."
"What's a chronicler?" Laura asked. "Who are you?"
Perrin smiled. "This is James, your daddy."
Laura smiled, "Daddy?"
James smiled back. "Yeah, I wish I could have held you one more time, but I'm not complaining."
"So what is a Chronicler again?" Perrin asked. "I forgot."
"Lesse here…" James started, "A Chronicler records everything that happens in an age, I n particular I have a book for every dragon that records their life, by reading these books, I can know just about everything that's ever happened since the first Chronicler, everything that's happening now, and I have several gifts, one of which is to know some things that have yet to pass."
"And why is this important?" Perrin asked.
"Just like Flame and the others are guardians of their respective element, region, and the eggs, I'm a guardian over the entire world during that age as well as time itsself. I'm not allowed to leave the temple, but in very special circumstances, I can intervene, using my knowledge to help others solve the problems at hand. Look at Ignitus, without his help we never would have gotten to anti-space, and everything would be gone now."
"Speaking of that," Perrin said. "I thought you said the Temple of Time was gone."
"It was, but I guess when Ôumí Jiâ was defeated, everything went back to where it should have been."
"And what about you?" Perrin asked. "How long are you gonna do this?"
"Oh, longer than you can comprehend." James said. "but don't' worry, when it's time to pass my role on to the next Chronicler, I'll be able to move on and finally hold you again. How have you two been doing in this time?"
"We've been ok." Perrin said. "But I wish you could come back."
"Sorry." James said. "But you can't reverse death. I may still exist in this world, but the fact remains that I no longer live. I only have until the aurora is over, which isn't long. So I must part with telling you both how much I love you. During my ages in the Temple, I'll never forget either of you."
Perrin put Laura down who went to play around with the light that made up James's body. Perrin stood up and walked to him. "Will I ever see you again? In this life I mean?"
James paused a moment to think. "Perhaps, look for auroras, maybe one day you'll be looking at the right one."
"Perrin nodded, a single tear sliding down her face. "I'll miss you." And though she couldn't touch him, she leaned and kissed where his lips would have been had he been there.
"I'll miss you too. But I have to leave, I don't have much time left and I need to do one more thing before the aurora ends. Goodbye my love."
And then his body brightened until it was once again a large white orb, which flew into the air, gently trailing light as it went.
For a long time, Perrin stood there, staring at the night sky, until Laura tugged her shirt, causing her to look down.
"Mommy, it's cold, can we go inside?"
Perrin smiled. Having some form of closure. "Sure honey. Lets go." So they turned and went inside, closing the door.
That same night, Ryan and Selena were on the couch, playing DotD in the 360. It was Selenas favorite game, it showed her parents past and she found it infinitely intriguing that some human had somehow known so much of her world without even knowing it was real. Kenji had also come to visit and was making something to eat. The group that had come back from the dragon realms had formed the tight bond of brothers at arms, as well as than of a shared secret.
They heard a knock at the door and head Kenji say "I got it!" A moment later, he said "Selena, it's for you."
Selena got up and with Ryan following came across an odd sight.
There was a couple at the door, one had a yellow shirt and an orange belt that hung below his pocket on one side, his hair and eyes were purple.
The woman had smooth chocolate skin with straight black hair and right green eyes, uncommon for a person of her complexion. She wore white Capris and a dark red blouse.
"Can I help you?" Selena asked.
"Ha! They don't recognize you!" A voice said. "Although with as silly as you two look I'm not surprised." There was a yellow streak and a dragonfly was hovering a few inches from Selenas face, "Ew, you're gotten weird looking too"
Selena swatted him away saying "Sparx? If that's you then…" She looked at the two again. "No way…"
Spyro smiled. "Nice to see you again Selena."
"No way! Mom! Dad!" She ran forward to hug them, which they returned.
Meanwhile, Ryan and Kenji stared at the two in complete surprise.
Selena broke the hug and said "What are you guys doing here?"
"We're here to take you home honey." Cynder said.
Kenji nodded. "Ok, where's the portal?"
Spyro looked at him "Well we…. Uhh…"
Cynder looked to him "What? We- oh… Umm… Selena?"
"What?" Selena asked.
"We umm, made a bit of an oversight. Do you think you have room for two more?"
Kenji facepalmed. "Ugh, you two came here with no way of getting back?"
"WHAT?" Sparx yelled zooming to hover in front of Spyro. "You mean you dragged me here, away from my family, with NO WAY of getting home? We're stuck here? FOREVER?" Spyro grinned sheepishly. "Oops?"
"Oops? Oops doesn't begin to cover it!" Sparx then floated off, ranting and cursing.
Once Sparx had drifted out of sight, they turned to face each other. "So umm, Mom, Dad, wanna come in?"
A few hours had passed. Spyro and Cynder had become transfixed with the Spyro games, they spent their time divided between figuring out how someone knew so much about them, and the other time was spent with Cynder laughing at how many times her virtual evil self kept killing Spyro, who wasn't used to thumbs yet.
A few hours after their arrival, Sparx flew down the chimney. "Guys! Come outside quick! There's some weird light show going on!"
A moment later they were outside as they saw a large orb of light descend from the sky to land on the grass. It seeped tendrils of light.
"What is it?" Kenji asked.
Suddenly, it flashed and half the tendrils turned pitch black. Then all the tendrils, white and black shot out and converged, the hundreds of shards of light and shadow forming a white disk than had a never ending series of black rings growing from the center until they vanished at the disk's edges.
"That… that looks like James's portals." Selena said.
Then they heard a voice in their heads. It's good to see you again, this will take you home, those who will go, go those who will stay, stay. I can only keep this up for thirty seconds. Choose quickly.
"It is! It's James!" Kenji said.
"Thirty seconds!" Spyro said quickly, turning back to Selena. "You coming?"
Selena turned to Ryan. "Well?"
"Where you go, I go my stellar beauty."
Selena blushed. Then turned to Kenji, who shook his head. "Not this time. But I think I'll have another chance later. Just go."
With no more time to think on it, Spyro, Cynder, Sparx, Selena and Ryan jumped through the portal just as it closed, leaving a dark, empty street except for one teenager with an odd key shaped sword.
Deep in the darkness, a man in a black cloak smiled as Kenji stayed behind before melting into the shadows.
One year later…
Everyone was gathered at the great hall of Warfang, The Cheetahs were the most plentiful, among them were Hunter, Chief Prowlus, and even the hermit had come out of seclusion for this event. Many dragons were also there, the guardians of the Avalar temple along with several dragons that had known Spyro and Cynder as well as their family over the years. Many moles were there including the city counsel. A few dragonflies had even made the long journey from the swamp, including Sparx, Shimmer and Lumi, now twelve were there. Even more uncommon, several members of the Atlawa and Manweersmall had made the long trek to the mainland. They had missed an event such as this before, and they weren't about to repeat the mistake.
Fever was standing at the front of the hall with his best friend and uncle, Sei next to him. Fever wore crimson leg armor on the front and back, a sheet of crimson plate mail going from his neck down his back and a crimson helm that only covered the back half of his head. The armor itself was very simple, but refined with elegant lines.
Just then, the doors at the back of the hall opened and Spyder stood there, she wore armor that mimicked Spyro but was a pale gold with complex and elegant patterns etched across the surface, the main difference was that she also wore a white veil. She walked up the center aisle, conscious of everyone watching her as she made it to her place opposite Fever.
Kwaik stood between the two. Glad they had chosen him to do this honor. Then he spoke.
"We are all gathered here today to witness an uncommon event. The joining of two dragons on marriage. Who offers this dragoness in marriage?
Spyro stepped forward, moving his tail unnecessarily to show off Selenas newest magical achievement, an steel tail that mimicked the movements his old tail would normally make. "I, Spyro offer her in marriage."
Kwaik nodded and turned to Fever. "What do you have to offer Spyder in this marriage?"
Fever looked to Spyder. "A secure home, a swift hunter, a lifetime of happiness, and an undying love"
Kwaik nodded. "If anyone here sees any reason why these two should not be wed, speak now or forever hold your peace."
The temple was silent.
"Fever. Do you take Spyder to be your wife, to love and cherish her, to care for her in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer, for better or worse, till death do you part?"
Fever had never been so sure of anything in his entire life. "I do."
"And Spyder, do you take Fever to be your husband, to love and cherish him, to care for him in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer, for better or worse, till death do you part?"
Spyder looked at Fever, smiling and tears rolling down her face. "I do."
Then I now pronounce you husband and wife. He turned to Fever, "You may kiss the bride."
Fever leant in and shared a kiss that he could not possibly compare to anything he had experienced before. They broke the kiss, turned to see everyone cheering for them, and walked down the aisle together, left the hall, and took off into the sky for a well deserved honeymoon.
On the ground, Selena and Ryan watched them leave, then turned to each other.
Selena smiled. "We're next."
Ryan nodded. "Tommorow." Then they kissed deeply and turned to watch the sun sink below the horizon.
The End