The Young Ancients: Second Cycle Series by P.S. Power

Some chances are gifts. There's nothing to lose now, and everything to gain, because things like this are far too incredible to miss out on. The world has been in turmoil for over ten years. Ancient beings from a time before memory nearly destroyed everything in an attempt to remove the regular people from the planet, simply to bring in their own golden age. They were defeated by the young of their own kind. Immortals that sacrificed nearly everything they had, to protect the innocent... moreSome chances are gifts. There's nothing to lose now, and everything to gain, because things like this are far too incredible to miss out on. The world has been in turmoil for over ten years. Ancient beings from a time before memory nearly destroyed everything in an attempt to remove the regular people from the planet, simply to bring in their own golden age. They were defeated by the young of their own kind. Immortals that sacrificed nearly everything they had, to protect the innocent. Dareg Canton was one of those they saved. A mere child when the world was thrown into chaos, left alone by a killer storm that took the only parent he ever knew. To make his way he moved to the capital of Noram, a place of relative prosperity... and hope. Once there he finds that reality isn't what he was told, and that his entire future is about to be set into motion by the very people that once protected the entire world. Because the Young Ancients are returning from their exile in space, and like it or not, the job of getting ready to greet them is being dumped on him. The lowest of the low. It's a chance to gain everything, if he can work it right. If not, then he stands to lose more than he ever would have thought possible. less

Something is coming... Dareg Canton has barely recovered from the desperate fight that nearly killed him, when a new threat emerges. One that leads him back into his own past, and might destroy everything he thought of as reality. Can he survive the truth? Could anyone? It's time to find out, because waiting isn't an option any longer.

Some things must be done... Stuck in time, the world moving slowly around him, Dareg Canton struggles to save the entire world from The Adversaries. Dark beings from other worlds. At the same time, he searches for his mother, who he’d thought was dead. Nothing is as it seems, and if he can’t figure out what reality is, then everything, everywhere, will do more than die. They’ll never have existed at all.