There were murmurs amongst the star people that there was something decidedly wrong with the world. Jasper sees it. When Jasper spoke to the celestial Sapphirus Argent, his grandfather, of the coming end of the Earth.
"What is it about you and the end of the world?" Sapphirus moaned because of his grandson's odd habit of predicting the word's end accurately.
"Go bury yourself you old fossil," said Jasper's father Lakelandite Argent to his father, who secretly was a semi-dead grim reaper. Sapphirus scoffed. Will they save the Earth?
Also in the audiobook Jasper's Fate a related story