"You were always born to be a monster. You've lived with that curse your entire life, but what if I told you that I could make it disappear? All that pain, all the dragons that you've hurt; what if the Realms could forget what you have done? Wouldn't that be better? Wouldn't you like that? Don't your friends want you to be happy? Doesn't Sun?" Fire and ruin, that is all Fire Forrest Blaze has ever known. Fire and hatred. Fire and death, the side-effect of a great power that he never asked for; a power that no one should be able to wield. Especially not dragons the likes of Fahrenheit or Darkwhisperer, but that is exactly the dilemma the young Defender is faced with anyway. Time has been thrown out of balance. His friends are all gone; Sun, his voice of reason, his best friend, disappearing right from his very talons. Once again, he hadn't been a hero. He had only managed to hurt them more. But prophecy does not care about dragons or the desires of their hearts, it cares only for the fate of Dragnaple...and the rest of the universe. And now Fire is the last chance the Defenders have to set everything right. He's not the hero anyone wants, but he's the only hope they have left...once and for all... (Cover rights are not mine, made on Canva)