This chapter's kind of an exposition dump so if you have any questions feel free to ask ;)
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I'll admit I was hesitant about trying to go back into the cave. It had a weird effect on Eliza. Immediately afterword she completely forgot everything. If I did go back, it would have to be alone. Whatever had happened, I didn't want to freak her out like that again.

So one night I snuck out. It wasn't hard since nobody really kept guard, since there wasn't really reason to sneak out. I welcomed the little green ripples, and headed for the tunnels we went in last time.

It was still open, and I walked right inside, it still glowed as soon as I walked inside.  I got excited as I looked at the walls again, only to feel my heart sink as I realized I'd just made a stupid mistake.

I couldn't read the walls.   

I groaned and banged my head against the wall. What was I gonna do now? Eliza could read it, but I couldn't.

"Zach?"

My head whipped around and I cam face to face with a dark get she-claw with dark blue eyes.

"Do I...? Do I know you?" I blinked, I honestly didn't remember her.

She tilted her head. "It's me, Barranca."

    I gasped as memories came flooding back. The Cave of Time. Suka. The five legends. The story she told me about Dragonfly and her sister. Barranca and Fifi. The evil twin, the one who dies.

    "Wh-what are you doing here?" I exclaimed. "You're dead!"

    Barranca nodded. "That's true. I'm here because I wasn't supposed to die."

    My heart was beating quickly in my chest. "What does that mean?"

    She frowned, then padded past me. "I need to show you something."

    I followed her back out into the pool area. The ripples her footsteps left were red, I noticed.

    "Have you been in there this whole time?" I asked, concerned.

    Barranca nodded, she flexed out her wings, then hopped up into the air, landing on a ledge I could hardly see in this darkness. She swiped a claw against the ground and it started glowing red, revealing a small tunnel. It looked old.

    "This is where I started. The rest of these tunnels, I made." She explained, disappearing inside.

    My eyes widened in amazement as I though about the sheer amount of caves I had seen briefly. I jumped after her, squeezing my way inside.

    "Glamora might be where the prophecies are written, but here is where they are stored. I got bored, you might say. I have been here for centuries."

    "Wait, inside everyone one of these tunnels is a prophecy?" I realized.

    "Yes."

    "There's so many!" I marveled.

    She looked back and rolled her eyes. "Since this is how we record history, a good majority are mundane things. I have a few more to make ever since you've been born. I've been stuck in the cave with the Prophecy of the Four for a while now."

    "Wait, have you been here before the Rumblers?" I demanded.

    "I'm the one who created this place Zach." She admitted eerily, before the tunnel opened up into a cave.

    She stepped forward and the hieroglyphs lit up a creepy dark red color. Again, it was in a language I couldn't read.

    "They're written in the ancient language, it's the only language prophecies can be written in without fading." She explained, walking forward.

    "Wait, hold on. You made this place? How did you make it?"

    She stretched out a wing and pointed to a sentence on the wall.

    "When blood is torn and death is born, find her where there is no morn. In the darkness final breath, a claw who defied the laws of death." She read.

    "Timelines are a fickle thing, Zach. They're hard to mess with. Tenebris is not natural to this world, they were not supposed to come here. My death was not foreseen. When it happened, I slipped out of reality, and found myself here, in this little pocket dimension I made myself, out of my own thoughts. I opened up a stream in time, a loophole. When claws who weren't supposed to die passed, they found themselves here. Since this place is unnatural and honestly, on the brink of collapsing, they're stuck. Their timelines are all whack. That's why nobody can remember anything."

    "So all the Rumblers who live here are supposed to be alive right now?" I put together, sitting down and staring at the wall.

    She nodded.

    "How did Eliza die?" I asked.

    Barranca frowned. "The same way Ransom and Nala did. The same way everyone did, except you and I of course."

    My eyes widened and I could hardly believe my eyes. "You mean, they all died in the same event? What happened?"

    Barranca's eyes narrowed. "I'm not allowed to tell you that."

    I scoffed. "Why not?"

    "When Nepal's child past he inquires, darkness daughter's silence he requires. Two tunnels down to your left. If I tell you I open up some anomaly that causes a certain pair quite a bit of trouble." She snorted. "Heavens knows they already deal with enough."

    I blinked. "Who?"

    She shrugged. "Nobody. You'll meet them in another timeline someday."

    "Okay then..." I replied hesitantly. "Why did you want to show me this place again?"

    She sighed. "You weren't supposed to die Zach, honestly I thought this was obvious.

    I bit my lip. "But what about try to find the one who died, from the Prophecy of the Four? Isn't that me? Isn't that a foreseen death?"

    Barranca shook her head. "Nope, that's referring to someone else. I know, I know, it's hard to tell with the rhyming and what not, blame Suka. This is a twist of events, but it's a weird one, I must say."

    "Why?"

    "When a timeline is ruptured, it'll try to fix itself. That's how reincarnations happen. Most of the time, it's within it's own timeline. Occasionally, it's be so big of a rupture that the reincarnations happens over several dimensions. That's how the Dragonflies keep popping up. It'll keep doing that until the dark 'twin' fails to die, because that wasn't supposed to happen. I have a theory." She beckoned me closer.

    "Tenebris has never reappeared for the other reincarnations of Dragonfly. Their only intent is to keep the timeline ruptured. Everytime the dark twin dies it's like reopening a wound. That's because they knew that the other past reincarnations wouldn't be enough to fix the timeline. Only for you two, he's back, and that can only mean one thing."

    "He thought we could fix the timeline." I gasped.

    She smiled. "Thank Glamora you're not a thick as you look. Yes, he must have thought you were the dark twin, which is why he killed you, but you ended up here."

    "I'm actually the light twin?" I frowned in confusion. "But Suka told me-"

    "Suka can't tell either. She lied. Neither can Tenebris though."

    "So what are you saying?"

    Barranca looked at me gravely. "Zara is the one fated to die."