When the young royal siblings Aly, Max and Ty start out at the academy of their family, they start to learn what it means to be a Sphaxacrus, who can later control the elements. But things go a different way when it becomes clear that something is different about the three cadets, and the world of the Sphaxacrus is afraid they have to face an old prophecy. When then someone who was believed dead for years turns up, the siblings have bigger problems than school.