I stop and fly out the cave,holding a diamond dagger in my mouth. I close my mind and start thinking. I could help other worlds but then I have something else to do...<I'm about to go on a hunt>I say to Twera and take off. I go to one of my favorite hunting areas and grab a deer in my talons and deliver the fatal blow with my diamond dagger, it turning into a sword. I grab another deer with my talons and do the same thing. I cook them and fly back to Twera's cave with them floating beside me

"Ah, well, according to these readings, this human has you in her pocket. perhaps you did leave a scale behind after all. Of course, what that means to you is beyond me."

??? (only Twera can hear this): "Your words are not meant for me! It’s as if I don’t exist! As if you don’t care that an entire world is covered in darkness, and is dying!”

i had stayed quite. i, after all, had lived with the shadows. and they were compulsive, primitive, and only good at taking orders. not giving. no, they would unite with them, i would not. after all, they hate me for killing their arch general.
i toss my mane and say, <twera, f you don't mind, tell the shadows that i am dead. it would help you win them over. say you personally killed me. after all, i am a horse at the moment....and it is good to keep your temporary allies in the dark a tad. and a lesson of warfare: always, always, have a spare ace up your sleeve. now, i am thirsty, curse this horse need.> then i start down the mountain, stopping at a small stream. i drink my fill then run the rest of the way down. i keep running until i find the tunnel. in horse form, i can fit all the way in.
"ahhhhhhhhhhh, Nem-eee-sssisssss. to wh-aaa-t do-ooo i owwwe t-hhee pl-eeea-ssssssurr?" a voice hissed in the dark.
"hello Medusa. i believe i owe you a hunk of dragon meat?"
"y-eee-sssssss. buut y-oooou aaa-reeee a hooo-rossse. i d-ooo nooot eee-aat theeeeem."
" i know that. i offer you the flesh of a great one."
"oooooh? i woooo-uld nooot da-aare h-ooope for th-aaat...."
"it is true. gather an army, and they all shall get a portion of the bodies. meat, bone, flesh, scales, horns, you name it."
"hmmm. i....ac-sss-eeept."


(zero, u know what cake for.)

I send a thought to 10 my dragons friends that have been at Earth. "Yeah Yeah Yeah okay you're free to come back to Eden and bring the elites of the army"Their our 20 of flashes showing dragons that our my elites of my army<The elites of a army I had and they're also like 5,000 more that are in the army>

posting for GOs third pov

they could not hide their metal thoughts that they send out for far away friends. the great ones hear a call for an army. "we should gather our own and help them. they must be fighting the shadows again." life said.
"no. they are not attacking them." said fire. "we must find out who they are attacking. and why they need help." said draco.
"i think i know." murmured water so low no one heard it.

I felt the anger behind that mysterious voice, but I tried to ignore it. "Yes, but why would a human pick it up? That scale has all sorts of magical properties."

I flap my wings hard <Wait Water is suspects something> I look at Twera <They heard my call for my army> I feel anger rise in me and Water the GO gets slammed into the wall by a hurricane

<Yes, why indeed, it is not my area of expertise... Regardless, the weapons I was thinking about: they aren't exactly the kind you can pick up and wield.> I store the still image and bring up a screen showing several diagrams and a rotating 3-D model of a strange machine. The device had three multi-jointed legs, a turntable waist, a fat body with two short, strong arms, and a flat head surrounded with eye-like cameras. <You see, the Great Ones can't kill what isn't alive to begin with, and I'm certain Life and Death would have the ability to instantly do so to any living thing we send after them.> I move the model front and center. <The arms can be modified to fit any weapon you can conceive, and a de-centralized processing system will allow components to function, even if the rest of the Mech is destroyed.> I give a small flick of my tail and wait for Twera's opinion.

"Perfect. They'll never know what hit them."

"of if they do, they won't have time to dwell on it.> i told twera. backed out of the cave and started for twera's. i made sure to keep my conversation hidden, no need for them to now i was gathering my own attack force.

I smiled. This time we would prevaill and take back our own. But one thought was nagging me. <Thunder, how far back couldyou send someone?>

reach the top of the mountain side and trotted into the cave.

<How far back... in time? You know that was a complete accident.> What are you getting at, Twera? <But most likely all the way back to the beginning; you would have to ask Mizuko, he went back and met me in the past, and brought Ketna forward. Of course, you would need some kind of reference point.> I start to nake some modifications to the blueprints for the Mechs, but I remember something. <Oh, I want to know if you can test this, see if it reacts to magic like a natural one.> 'It' is a synthetic diamond. <It should be fine, I didn't use any magic to make it, but I just want to be sure before I start mass-production.> I hand it to her, half hoping it would distract her from what ever she was planning.

I took the gem. I knew he was trying to distract me, but it wouldn't work. The nice thing about having such a powerful mind was that I could think of so many things at once. <Well, the tests shouldn't take more than a few hours. I'll save my memories when I'm done. In the meantime, would you be able to figure out how to send me back about nineteen years?>

I shrug, <Like I said, you would have to ask Mizuko, But I'll see if I can't build something to make the ride a little smoother.> Back nineteen years? Is she planning to... <Just remember, if you plan on changing the past, you could end up causing what you went back to prevent, or vise-versa.> No point voicing my suspicions, whether I'm right or wrong it would only upset her.

I shot a bolt of energy at the gem. <I know exactly what I have to do. I know exactly what happened to Mother and Father. Wouldyou like to comewith me?>

<twera....> i slowly interrupted the conversation, <the river of time is.....delicate. it only flows one way. even Time knows that. if you meddle too much, you will become a branch stuck in one place, not a pebble that bounces along with the flow. remember that. time is in fact, a bomb. it will go off at any moment and i know for a fact what the result of changing a major happening will cause.> i let it sink in then continue, <the river of time has many tributaries and may small detours. you may be able to dam time, but when it busts out it will go so fast time it's self will stop and then play back. it will go back to one place in time, and then replay the events. only the person who dammed it will know what happened, and that person will be a keeper of time. until he or she dies. trust me, you do not want that. so i will say it only once: be careful what you do in the past.> then i lay down and closed my eyes, pretending to be asleep.

who`s next ?

Time might be a river, but every river hides secrets. I knew exactly what happened to Mother and Father. Everyone had said they diedd in the attack, but no bodies were ever found. The neighbors found me, alone in the wreckage of Father's lab. I had spent nearly nineteen years wondering why no one found the bodies, and now the answer was staring me in the face. Someone had brought them forward in time

<Yes! exactly like Clat and Ketna, they both vanished, and later, knowing that they vanished, I, or Mizuko in Ketna's case, went and closed the loop by bringing them forward! Of course, Nemesis is right, what she described is one possible result of a paradox; the other things that could happen are far more frightening. It's extremely dangerous.> Pulling more beings out of their timelines... I fear unforeseeable consequences, but we already know they vanished... <I think it would be best for you to go alone, one dragon's harder to spot then two or three.>

<Perhaps I might be able to stop you from leaving as well.> What good could come out of this venture? I knew it was chaancy at best, but I had to do it. I knew I had to because I had already done it. Butg there was one problem that weighed heavily on my mind. <But before I go, could you run a test on me?>

<A test? What kind?>

<Eggs,> was all I said. I was worried. If I was carrying eggs, time travel could hurt them. I had to be sure before leaving.

<Hmm, yes, I see why that would worry you. Give me a few moments...> That's embarrassing, running a pregnancy test on my own sister... I guess I'm the only one who can... I take a small blood sample and place it in the computer. <There, done. I don't see any of the typical hormone indicators, you're clean.>