I stared at the doorknob before I turned it, thinking about what the Chronicler said.

"An evil force wanting to take some hatchlings.." I thought, "Why? What would hatchlings possible do for some evil mastermind?"

I shrugged it off, not wanting to think about it anymore, I turned the knob, and opened the door, went through it, and closed the door behind me, I let out a deep sigh.

"Will they even believe me?" I wondered as I leaned against the door, "It does sound a little too crazy when you think about it."

I got off the door, and hesitated to walk for a second. I finally went to the direction of the Guardians, I've talked to a couple of the guardians, they seem like pretty cool individuals.

"Hey Eclipse!" I heard Cynder calling my name, I turned to see her coming my way, with Spyro not trailing far behind.

"Hey Cyn." I said, shortening her name.

"Hello Eclipse." She said with a grin, "Have a nice sleep?"

"It was good," I smiled, "So, how did the meeting go?"

"Well…," She trailed off, "Let's just say, I think it went better than expected, but if you ask Mare… yeah, he's not in a good mood."

"Heh." I snickered, "Yeah, I could tell, he was sweating while in bed, who woulda thought a fear dragon would get scared of something.

"Eclipse," Cynder started to scold, but I put my paw up.

"Cynder," I started, "It's just a joke, I love Mare. I just also love messing with him."

"Oh Eclipse," Spyro said with a mischievous look, "I love messing with him too."

"Spyro, you are not helping!" Cynder snapped.

"Who said I was helping?" Spyro questioned.

I was just laughing as the two went at each other, shortly after the whole thing stopped, I waved them off and went down to find the guardians and tell them about the dream I had about the Chronicler, maybe they will know something about him.

I continued going down the hallway to the pool of visions room, I then realized when I stepped in, this is the same exact pool from my 'dream' with the Chronicler, how I didn't realize that, is beyond me.

I went to the middle of the room and peered inside the pool, the blue water inside just casually shifted about in the pool, with nothing else to do.

It felt like an eternity, just staring into the pool, I heard a door behind me open, and I turned to see Ignitus coming into the room.

"What are you doing in here, young one?" Ignitus asked as he walks closer to me, he seemed very calm for some reason.

"I-I needed to talk to you, or at least one of you." I stammered a little bit, I felt his gaze on me, as if it was an Earth Dragon laying on a little leaf, and I was the leaf.

"What for?" He asked, still maintaining that calm look.

"I…. had a dream during my nap earlier." I slowly said.

"A dream?" He pondered, "Surely that's what everyone has when they're sleeping, no?"

"No, I wouldn't say it was a dream," I said, "More like an interactive vision, like I was legitimately in the dream, as if it wasn't a dream in the first place."

"Really?" He said, intrigued, "Tell me about this 'dream'."

I explained the 'dream' to him, telling him about every little detail about it, he patiently listened to each and every sentence, then I got to the end.

"...and the Chronicler said that there would be an incoming evil to the temple." I finished.

"Hmm…" He thought about what I just told him, "The Chronicler, I haven't heard that name in a long time."

"Who is the Chronicler?" I asked.

"The Chronicler is a dragon with tremendous amounts of knowledge, probably the biggest brain out there," Ignitus explained, "He has books of every dragon's life and what they did in their lives, from the small things to the more important things, including yours within the last 3 years, with this, and that he has books that record everything that happens in history, he is one of the most important dragons out there."

"Really?" I asked, "How does he get this knowledge?"

"That is something I don't know." he admitted, "He constantly reads the books, otherwise known as the Books of Time, so he must get all of his knowledge from the books."

"Oh." I disappointedly said.

"Hey young one, Cheer up." Ignitus comforted me, "I'm glad you shared this information with us, I'll have a talk with the other Guardians, In the meantime, have you started training?"

"Only a little bit," I answered, "my mom had been too distracted with Mare in the last few days to really care about my training, which I guess is understandable."

"Very." Ignitus agreed. He motioned me to follow him as he went out of the pool of visions room.

"Where are we going?" I asked as he continued walking, to me he looked deep in thought. Probably thinking about what I told him. I got close to him and tapped his leg. He looked down and rubbed his head.

"Sorry, I lost myself in my thoughts" he sighed, "If what you said is true, we need to be prepared. Most likely it's true since the Chronicler said it. Again, I'll have to talk to the other guardians and see what they think about this."

"That's cool and all, but where are we going?"

"We need to continue your training." Ignitus explained, "So we're going to the training room so I can teach you."

Excited for a moment, before regaining my composure, it was my turn to rub my head as it didn't make sense for a fire dragon to train an electric dragon.

"Ignitus, I'm sorry to question you, but wouldn't it make more sense for Volteer to train me instead of you?"

"Well, yes that would normally be the case," Ignitus responded, "Unfortunately Volteer is out at Warfang visiting his family."

Nodding at his answer, we continued walking to the training room. The hallways leading to it were made out of stone throughout the entire hallway. I guess it makes sense since stone is a pretty easy material to use and find.

In the training room itself, it might as well be called Training Dummy storage, with the amount of Dummies against the walls, in the middle of the room, and generally anywhere in the room you can imagine. Except the ceiling of course.

"Here we are." Ignitus announced.

"There's so many dummies." I commented, he chuckled at that comment, responding with:

"You can't train without something to hit. Besides half the dummies are destroyed because of Spyro burning them to literal crisps."

That comment in of itself made me laugh, imagining Spyro fighting these dummies. One thought led to another and a pleasant picture of Spyro losing to one of these filled my mind for the next few minutes appeared.

Ignitus looked at me in amusement. Probably wondering what I was laughing about, his comment or something completely different.

"Alright, Let's begin." Ignitus said as he walked me over to a dummy.

I looked at the dummy, mostly made out of wood and decorative material. Mostly because looking at a wooden pole isn't very immersive. Imagine a wooden cross, but with a wooden sword, a leather tunic, and a bucket for a head and that's basically I'm looking at. It really is a Dummy.

"Alright Eclipse, show me what you can do so far." Ignitus requested.

I looked at the Dummy as it suddenly 'came to life' and went into a defensive stance, blocking its lower half with its sword.

I went into my own stance and lunged at his upper half, my teeth baring and claws aiming towards where its throat would be. It suddenly blocked upwards and swatted me on the nose with his sword. I doubled back, wiping my nose to see if it was bleeding, which it wasn't, but the Dummy capitalized on me being distracted about my nose and jumped at me, it's sword raised above his head ready to swing.

I rolled to the side, with the dummy to my right. I lunged at it again from behind and bite its 'neck' which chopped its 'head' clean off.

I looked at Ignitus, expecting a 'good job' for lobbing the things head off, but he shook his head and walked towards me.

"That was reckless, young one." The disapprovement evident in his voice, "Had that been a real Steel Sword in a real battle that blow to your nose would have sliced right through it."

My tail slapped the ground with a sad thud. Knowing he was right, I nodded.

"You need to learn how to dodge and learn to not rush in without a plan." He explains.

I nodded once again, but then he continued.

"You also must keep your eyes on your opponent at all times." Ignitus instructed. "Anytime you take your eyes off your enemy is an opportunity given to them to strike at you and strike hard."

I nodded once again.

"Try again, this time with those things in mind."

"Okay."

An hour or two went by of me attacking Dummies, succeeding, and getting more tips from Ignitus. He was impressed by my progress, but was still worried about me just rushing in.

"You've still made improvements." He said as he sat next to me, looking down at me with a little smile.

"All you gotta do is to make a strategy for whenever you battle. It's always nice to have one so your at least not thinking of moves to do while your getting attacked." He paused, noticing my somewhat sad expression.

"Hey, you can't learn to be the best at fighting in one training session." He placed his claw on my shoulder, "Come back tomorrow, so we can continue, okay?".

"Alright." I mumbled, before heading off on my own. I left myself to my thoughts for a while, feeling annoyed at myself for being so reckless. That's not how I normally am. I think rationally most of the time; at least that's what I think goes on in my head.

Continuing down the hallway, I passed many dragons who were residents of the temple. This temple is also like a sanctuary, giving hospitality to dragons and other sentient species needing a roof over their heads. Think of it as a place for anyone to live at who needs the help. Really all there is to it. Reason why my Mother, Zephira is here is because her mate bailed on her after finding out she was having eggs. Terrador, her brother allowed her to stay at the temple for as long as she needed to.

Anyway, I was heading down to my room. My plan was to curl up on my hammock and die there. Not really, but I feel like I should knowing the stupid mistakes I made during training. How I remember the path from literally anywhere in the temple to my room even amazes me as it's literally a maze in here.

After about 5 - 10 minutes of mindless walking, I finally arrived at my room. Me, Mare, and Cynder share a room as there's not enough room in the temple for the three of us each to get our own rooms.

I entered the room. Our room had a window that currently had sunlight beaming through it. Whenever the sun is sitting there lets us know it's almost night time as looking out from the window faces us westward. It gives nice lighting into our room. The room itself was simple with three hammocks against one of the walls. A mirror on the other side of a wall, followed by a brown bookshelf with all of the book mother wants us to study.

Our hammocks are sorted from oldest to youngest, which is from left to right. Meaning my hammock is on the left side, Cynder's in the middle, and Mare's on the right. My main issue with these hammocks instead of normal beds is that they're not as comfortable and they are much more annoying when against a wall. Plus they're hard to get out of. I've lost count how many times we have fallen out of them.

I slipped into my hammock, the fabric feeling awkward on each of my scales. I went to sleep, knowing that my failure in training would haunt me until I were to correct it.

Boy do I have a lot to learn.

Heh, I could already imagine the reviews now. "Divine! I thought you were dead!" or "Where in the hell did you go?". Or at least something along those lines. Okay, I'm going to real for a moment. Do NOT take this as a clue I'm coming back. I still got a month of school, which means I'm not going to be working on this much if at all during this month. What I do want to try and get done, are rewritten versions of the earlier chapters. Specifically 1-3. They are so bad… like seriously, I want to forget they existed because of how bad they were. Especially Chapter 2, I don't like the religious aspect I put into it, mostly because I'm agnostic, but also because it mostly has no business being on fanfiction in the first place.

Not saying I don't like Christians, I'm actually very tolerant of others and their beliefs. I don't care what you believe in, it doesn't make you, you. That's what your personality is for. I won't ever hate anyone because of their beliefs, that's just dumb and completely unreasonable.

Anyway, let's get to these review responses. Good lord it's been a while since I've done one of these.

MYTHICBOY: Bout that whole update statement of your review. I appreciate the complement of my Protagonist, but I released this chapter way later than I honestly should've. I apologize for that. Whom I kidding, you're probably not even going to read this.

SpencerXCove: Fair enough. People get offended way too easily even if it's proclaimed beforehand that the thing stated is not meant to offend anyone. I feel like it's just an excuse for those kind of people to get mad.

Again, sorry for the huge delay in this. Don't expect another chapter for another month or so. Expect some rewrites of the first three chapters in the oncoming future, and I hope to see some of you guys there. Saying that makes me truly wonder if people are still following me and my stories. Only one way to find out I suppose.

If you have been sticking with me through this, thank you. You have true patience to wait for my stories to be updated, it means a lot to me :)

~Divine