Foresight? Yes. Why haven't I been able to use it before? You have, it just wasn't important. What else are you hiding from me? He went silent afterwards. How does it work? Still no response. I need to know. Fear. Fear of losing them triggered this vision. Of course.

He didn't want anyone to die, but Aurora and Cynder were special to him. Losing them would break him. Aurora knew how to calm him down, to bring him back. Cynder was complicated, but he felt a deep connection with her. They were some of the few he could trust. The vision made sense to him, if Armavir had either of them or both, he would be able to control him. You can't protect them both. I can try. The future says otherwise. The future can be changed. It will only change if you force it too.

"Eclipse?" He turned to see Aurora in the doorway. She still had that look of concern on her face, even a hint of fear. "Are you sure you're alright?"

"Yeah, I'm just admiring." He gave her a smile.

"You're lying." She sat next him.

"Why would I lie to you? Besides you already know everything about me." He gave up on the smiling. Instead he looked over the sleeping city.

"You're still protecting me and something tells me you won't stop." She forced him to look at her.

"You're so beautiful."

"Flattery isn't going to work this time." She was stern. "Eclipse, I'm not helpless."

"I never said you were, it's just." He broke away from her gaze, looking away. "You're not safe." Don't tell her, it throws everything down the wrong direction.

"What do you mean. We made it, we're the safest we can be."

"I can't explain it. Something inside me is screaming at me that you're not safe and if it's anything like before." His voice had a slight tremble, memories from the past resurfacing. "I don't want to risk losing you."

"Eclipse." She brought him to look at her again. "Nothing can hurt me when I have you." She brought him into an embrace, he hadn't even noticed that he was shaking. "I love you."

"I love you too." He returned the embrace.

"Let's go back to bed. You need at least some sleep for tomorrow." She giggled as she moved away. "I'm not leaving you out here." She grabbed his arm, dragging him back inside. They laid down in the same spot as before, Eclipse returning his wing over her. She sighed happily, shortly returning to sleep. She's the key to everything. Only the key to you. What about Cynder? We both know that you would tear the world apart if Armavir took her. He was right. He wouldn't give up until he found Aurora where ever she was. He was confident in Cynder's abilities to defend herself, she also had Spyro. He gave her a quick kiss on the back of her head. Armavir would destroy Ardere and Frost if they tried. I'm the only one she's got that can fight him. And that puts her in extreme danger. He fell asleep, holding Aurora closer than he's ever done.

Eclipse wook up the next morning without incident. Sun peaked in through the glass doors, momentarily blinding him. He groaned, carefully getting up as to not wake the dragoness next to him. Pushing the doors open, the sounds of the city flooded his ears.

Dragons inhabited the skies, flying in every which direction. Moles were running in between the legs of any dragons still on the ground, usually carrying some sort of building material. He even spotted a few cheetahs roaming the streets. Smells of food and nature mixed into his nose, he let out a soft delighted sigh.

He returned to his room where Aurora was still sleeping soundly. Aurora was always the last one to wake up during their journey. At first, Ardere and Frost would find 'interesting' ways to wake her. These ventures usually ended in a angry dragoness and maybe a few sore cheeks. All that would end after she and Eclipse would sleep with each other. They tried to do it again with the two of them but that only ended in heartbreak.

Eclipse lightly poked her nose, but she didn't move. He nuzzled under her chin, she only groaned at him. He gave her a small laugh before kissing her cheek. "You need to get up."

"But you missed." She giggled, keeping her eyes closed.

"Kissing sleeping beauties isn't in my job description." He smiled. "I can't have you sleeping in my room all day." She finally opened her eyes.

"It's actually our room."

"How about you go get your brother and Ardere for breakfast. I'll meet you there." He proposed, walking back onto the balcony.

"Where are you going?" She joined him on the balcony.

"I need to talk to Spyro and Cynder. I won't be long." He leapt off into the sky, passing over the streets below.

He met them back at the guardian's hall. There they spoke about what to do about Armavir. Spyro wanted to go into the mountains and look for the army but Eclipse disagreed, saying that he didn't know the tunnels. He then wanted to send Eclipse to look for them but he wouldn't, it was still too risky. Cynder was silent for most of it.

Eclipse saw her look up at him a few times but it wasn't for long. To him it looked like she was distracted by something, it didn't come up in the conversation. She's letting her emotions get in the way. Shut it.

Spyro continued to suggest different courses of action but Eclipse continued to disagree with him. Cynder did contribute a few plans, but they too were dropped. Ultimately it amounted to nothing with most ideas either being too risky or had a low chance of working. They agreed to wait for the guardians to come up with something. Spyro left the two of them and went to eat with everyone else.

Cynder shifted uneasily, putting her paws on top of one another. She didn't look up at him.

"You're worried about the coming days aren't you?" he asked but she shook her head.

"I'm confident that we can win. I just want to make sure that you make it through it, won't it be hard facing Armavir?" She's worried for us. She's worried about me.

"Everything will be fine." He flashed a smile. "With the three of us here, nothing can bring us down." She looked up and she too had a smile.

"I'll just feel bad when I have to save you idiots on the battlefield." She jumped away before he could grab her. "Race you to breakfast." She was already in the sky when she challenged him.

"Oh your on!" He quickly started chasing after her.

He felt his stomach curl painfully, almost bringing him out of the air. He saw a large building on fire, with dragons screaming from the inside. Another image of grublins rushing through the gates of Warfang. Shortly followed Spyro crashing into the bricks of the city streets. He shook his head and they went away. What was that? Get to Aurora and the others.

Eclipse shot past her, faster then she's seen anyone go. Chills ran down her spine when the possibilities ran through her mind. She sped up behind him, desperate to catch him. He knocked other flyers into a spins and caused others to scramble to get out of the way.

She apologized to as many as she could as she went by but she didn't wanna risk slowing down. She felt that he had a urgent reason to be forgoing the safety of everyone in his path. The wind started to bend around Eclipse, she hadn't even realized that they were this far from the great hall. Cynder slipped into the stream behind Eclipse as he continued to somehow climb in speed.

Their destination was in sight but Eclipse wasn't slowing. Where is he going? He curved away from the hall, instead heading straight for a red dragon. He collided into the dragon at full speed, arms outstretched. They crashed through a two-story building, making crumble to the ground. He crushed the dragon into the ground, creating a crater as the street struggled to slow them.

"Fool." She heard the red dragon tell Eclipse before melting away into nothing. He didn't even wait, he was already running back to the hall. She was right behind him, trying to get his attention. He was about to throw open the door when both of the doors came hurtling off their hinges, taking him with them. She barely had time to throw herself out of the way.

Fire poured out the doors as dragons came rushing out. She rushed in and looked for anyone that needed help. She saw Spyro carrying Flame up the steps with Ember trailing close behind, trying to wake him up. Frost and a handful of other survivors were combating the flames. She rushed over to Ardere who was lifting rubble off of an adult dragon. He lifted the table the dragon was stuck under thus enabling Cynder to drag him out. Her heart fell when she couldn't find a pulse.

"Where's Aurora?" She yelled over the sound of the flames and frost breath.

"I don't know. I got here just before it went off." He responded then ran to the next trapped individual. Cynder helped a dragon with an injured leg out of the building, subconsciously looking for white scales. She handed the dragon off to another dragon and began looking for Eclipse. He was carrying two much younger dragons on his back when she spotted him. He leaned an extended wing down, letting their unconscious forms slip off him.

All she could find in him was dread.

"Aurora could be fine, don't worry." She tried to comfort him but he shrugged her off and went back inside. She looked around and saw all the devastation. Dragons, Moles and Cheetahs all either injured, unconscious or dead, littered the courtyard. Some of them were crying, others were watching in horror. People were trying their best to treat victims while medics were almost certainly on their way. Scorch marks ran like fingers along their bodies, some were even missing limbs

"We had a single day." Spyro came up next to her. "No mercy."

"He was here Spyro, or at least some part of him was. Eclipse caught him flying away."

"Where is he?" His voice had bits of anger mixed in.

"I don't know, he just kind of disappeared." She explained

"How?"

"As I said, I don't know. I just happened." She couldn't understand any of this. "He was aiming for this, there was no way he was targeting us specifically."

"Well, he picked a good time to do it. At least twenty dead." His anger was replaced by sadness. He left her, returning into the building. Twenty. She hoped that Aurora wasn't one of those fatalities, she hated the part of herself that wished she was.

She saw Eclipse carry out the limp body of Aurora with tears welling in his eyes. She ran after him, catching him as he let her down to be examined by a medic. Aurora had several second-degree burns with bruised bones all across her body. She also had severe head trauma. Eclipse picked her up and personally carried her back to the medical facility. Cynder later discovered that Flame had broken one wing and shredded the other. It would take him at least a year to heal fully.

The three of them were called down to the council chamber about an hour after the attack.

"THIRTY-EIGHT DEAD!" Terrador flung a desk out the door, instantly smashing it into pieces. "HOW CAN WE COUNTER WHEN WE DON'T KNOW WHERE HE EVEN IS!" He punched the wall, causing it to crack around the impact.

"You need to calm down!" Spyro fired back.

"I'LL CALM DOWN WHEN THAT DEMON CAN TELL ME A WAY TO OBLITERATE THE DRAGON THAT JUST KILLED THIRTY-EIGHT CITIZENS!"

"Hot heads won't get us through this." Eclipse's calmer voice reached them from the war room.

"HOW ARE YOU THIS RELAXED?" Terrador stormed across the chamber. Eclipse looked up at him, then shut the door with shadow magic.

"You can enter when your not destroying the other half of the city." Eclipse responded.

"THAT'S MY WAR ROOM!" He punched the door but it held firm

"We don't need you breaking it in a fit of anger." Cyril called from the other side. Terrador growled at them then returned to the office.

"Eclipse is right, you need to calm down." Cynder told him as he went back to where his desk used to be.

He took a deep breath. "Thirty-eight, Cynder. Thirty-eight of our friends are dead because we got this wrong." He throw his wings over his head. "He attacked us where he knew it would hurt."

"We're officially at war," Volteer announced solemnly. "and it's clear that we're already losing."

"Malefor never did anything like this." Spyro joined in the depressed tone of the room.

"We're not dealing with Malefor anymore my friend." Terrador corrected him, lowering his wings back to his sides.

"Eclipse will figure something out, he's still our best chance." Cynder told them.

"WELL, HE'S NOT DOING A GOOD JOB." Spyro's sudden burst of anger made her jump. "Sorry."

"It's fine." She knew it was only a half-hearted apology.

"She's right Spyro, he knows tactical warfare better than anyone here." Volteer picked his head up as he spoke. His eyes were red, he had been crying.

"We need to send a scout party into the caves, we need to know where he is." Spyro told them. They both nodded slowly.

"We'll get a small party together to go in." Terrador began looking through the scout roster.

"Eclipse should lead it, he knows them better than any of our scouts." Cynder looked at him as he said it. He's trying to get rid of him.

"I don't see wh-" Volteer began.

"With all do respect, Eclipse is too important to send into there. We need him here to coordinate a defense. Those caves could also trigger a mental breakdown and we could lose him." She looked glared at Spyro. "He's already unstable with Aurora being in the state she's in." She defended him.

"She's right." Terrador agreed. "I won't send him in there. Even with his knowledge, too dangerous."

"It's okay Spyro, we'll assign our best scouts." Volteer reassured him. "Chief Prowlus might let us borrow a handful of his pathfinders as well."

Spyro gave her a disappointed look that confused her then walked out. He stomped across the chamber to the war room. Eclipse opened the door to reveal that him and Cyril were indeed planning a defense of the city. A large map of Warfang laid across the table with various dragon and mole tokens laid on top. She noticed that the guardian's token were located in the center of the city, away from the fighting. Mole token were also placed in the ruined parts of the city, where functional catapults could be. In fact, their forces were spread all across the city, both within the intact and ruined parts.

"Why are we all spread out like this?" Spyro asked upon entering.

"Armavir is extremely unpredictable, we have today as an example." Cyril explained. "Me and Eclipse have decided to spread our forces around the city in an attempt to initially hold them."

"We hope that any forces at the initial engagement point can hold them until reinforcements arrive. These reinforcements would be lead by the guardians in the center of the city, that way they can respond to anywhere quickly." Eclipse continued.

"What about us?" Cynder also noted the absence of Spyro and Cynder's own tokens.

"That's the tricky part. I was hoping that the two of you would accompany me in eliminating Armavir once the battle starts."

"I'm all for killing him..." Spyro eyed him. "but how would we know where he is?"

"He's not entirely unpredictable. Malefor wanted me to employ underhand tactics during the siege but I mostly ignored them." Eclipse gave her a look she didn't understand before returning to Spyro. "Armavir will be on the field, behind the army, either waiting for the army to breakthrough or for us to make an appearance. Once he makes his own presence known, we take him out."

"And the snake dies without its head."

"Exactly." He smiled at the purple dragon. "Then we can hopefully enjoy the peace you two fought so hard to get." Eclipse got down from the table, and exited the room.

"That's it?" Spyro questioned as he followed him.

"Yes. Once your scouts return we can hopefully organise a counter attack before he lays siege." Eclipse explained further. He let out a large sigh when he exited the council hall, looking into the sky. She followed his gaze to see that no dragons were flying. Everyone's mourning.

"I'm going to return to my room, I need time to let everything soak in." He told them before leaving them on the ground. His voice was filled with grief and his flying was unsteady at best.

"Spyro, make sure he's okay. I'll stop by after I check on Aurora and Flame." Cynder saw the uncertainty in him. "Please?"

"Only for you. I'll see you later." Spyro shortly began following him. Don't do anything rash Spyro. Please. She lifted off into the barren sky and began her flight toward the clinic.