After listening to Mags story Rage and his friends built a camp for the night. Nautica dove into the lake to fish, and Gaia and Ono went into the forest to hunt. Jayce and Blaze took to the air flying out over the forest to scout the area.
" After that long flight I need some exercise." Jandar said.
" I'll come with you." Rage said. He started to get up and Jandar stopped him.
" No." He said. " You just flew across that sea carrying me. You rest and talk to your father. What's it been over four hundred years since you talked? I'll be right back."
He kissed Rage then shifted to wolf form and took off into the forest. Jandar loved running free. Over logs and bushes, around trees. This was a great way to clear his mind and relieve tension. He stop for a second and saw a rabbit. Dinner. Quietly creeping up, he dashed for it and was on the rabbit before it knew what was happening. Jandar lay down and started to eat the rabbit when he heard something.
[HELP PLEASE!!]
Jandar's black ears when up ,He didn't know what direction the call was coming from. Jandar stood, no longer interested in food.
[Who are you? Where are you?]
[I NEED YOUR HELP. WILL YOU COME?]
[If you lead me to you, I'll come.]
[I'LL SHOW YOU IN YOUR MIND WHERE TO GO. HURRY PLEASE, I DON'T HAVE MUCH TIME.]
In his mind Jandar knew exactly where to go. His legs pumped as he run towards whatever it was that was calling him. He had a feeling he knew what it was. Running down an incline Jandar found himself outside of a cave.
[I AM IN HERE.]
He heard that. Shifting back to human, Jandar summoned a light orb to light his way and went in. This cave seemed really old, bones littered the ground. All kinds of animal bones at first. Then larger bones. Ribs and spines, legs and wings, then whole skeletons. This was a dragon lair. An old one, it seemed everything here was dead.
[NOT EVERYTHING, NOT YET.] Jandar heard. [I AM STILL ALIVE.]
[Where are you?] Jandar cast the light orb to go higher as he walked further back.
[HERE]
Lying in a great pile of gold, Jandar saw the oldest bronze dragon he had ever seen. He was way over sixty feet long and by his looks, more then four or five thousand years old.
[NOT QUITE THAT OLD, MY NAME IS CANNIN]
Jandar walked over to the dragons head and stood before its huge glowing eye. How beautiful he must have been in his youth. He was totally bronze colored from head to the tip of his tail. He had a great maw, large enough to fit three cows. On his head he had two ram like horns that spiraled out. His massive wings were folded against his back.
[Why have you called me here?] Jandar asked.
[I AM THE LAST ADULT OF MY CLAN. WE WERE DEVASTATED BY A PLAGUE SET ON US OVER ONE THOUSAND YEARS AGO. ONE OF MY BROTHERS WAS TRAPPED BY A WIZARD AND PLACED IN HIS DUNGEON SURROUNDED BY WASTE. HE HAD TO BURN IT OR DROWN IN THE FILTH.. HE FLAMED THE FILTH UNTIL THE SPELLS ON THE WALLS THAT TRAPPED HIM CORRODED AND HE WAS ABLE TO BREAK FREE.]
" I'm sorry ." Jandar said to him. " What a horrible way to be enslaved."
[HE DESTROYED THE CASTLE AND THE WIZARD AND CAME HOME. BUT UNKNOWN TO HIM THE DAMAGE WAS DONE. SLOWLY MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS STARTED TO GET SICK. SOON THEY STARTED TO DIE. AND WE COULDN'T LAY EGGS ANYMORE. THAT WAS THE DOOM OF OUR CLAN.]
. Jandar ran his hand along Cannin's eye ridge. " How can I help you?"
[YOU CAN TAKE OUR LAST EGG.] Cannin pushed a large golden egg out to Jandar. [PLEASE TAKE CARE OF HIM.]
" Why don't I try and heal you?" Jandar said.
[IT'S TO LATE FOR THAT, MY TIME IS DONE. SAVE MY LAST CHILD.PLEASE........]The glow in Cannin's eye faded out and he let his last breath go. Cannin the mighty bronze dragon was dead.
" I will do as you ask. That's my promise." Jandar picked up the golden egg and walked out of the cave. Jandar raised his hand and summoned his staff. Pointing at the cave entrance, a bolt of energy shot out and collapsed the cave." Good bye Cannin."
Back at the campsite Rage was getting worried that Jandar still hadn't gotten back yet. He paced back and forth looking into the forest.
" I'm going after him, somethings wrong." Rage said.
" No ." Ono pointed. " Here he comes."
Jandar walked into the campsite carrying a large object.
" Is that what I think it is?" Rage asked. He walked over to Jandar looking at the gold egg in his hands.
"Where did you get it? Don't tell me from a nest?"
" Relax." Jandar said." It was given to me by the last of a dying clan. I promised to care for it. So what do I do?"
"You keep it warm until it hatches." Rage took the egg from Jandar and placed his hand on the top." " Its calling out to someone." He closed his eyes and concentrated. " There's someone here it wants." All the rest of them gathered around Rage to find out what was happening with the egg. Who could it be calling? There was no one else here.
" Father?" He called. Everyone looked up as Mags answered and moved closer.
[YES?]
" It wants you." Rage looked as his father drifted over to him." Can you hear it?"
[ What?] Mags spirit kept moving closer. No matter how he tried he couldn't stop. He was being sucked into the egg.
[RAGE!!!]
In to the egg he went. In there heads they heard him.
[AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!]
" Father!!!!!" Rage called.
" What's happening?" Jandar grabbed the egg.
" It took my Father.." He said. " I think its going to hatch."
Suddenly the egg began to rock and crack, Pieces fell off as it moved in his hand. A golden head peeked out as the egg fell to pieces. A small dragon jumped out and hopped on Rages shoulder. It coiled its twin tails around his neck.
[ WE'RE SHINE NOW. MAGS IS NO MORE. IT FEELS GOOD SON.]
Shine flexed his wing and roars. His eyes flashed with electrical sparks as he reared up. Shine flexed his wings and took to the air, doing acrobatics around the camp. Mags was now alive again.
[ I'M ALIVE AGAIN!!! AND FREE OF POLAN'S SPELL!!!]
Everyone watched him as he flew up into the trees. In the twilight they could see his glowing body. Higher and higher he flew. Now lightning shot out with his roars and lit the sky. As he rose his body grew bigger until he reached his full size. Shine had become a beautiful dragon with shining golden scales and wings. He had a long pointed twin tails and ridges down his back. Claws and a maw full of sharp teeth. Two small shell like ears and small horns that protruded from his forehead.
" What form will he take when he lands?" Blaze asked.
" None. " Rage told them. "Father didn't have a physical body so Shine won't have a human form. But he will be able to be the small dragon he was when he hatched when he wants to and his ghost form or grow large. You all see he's an energy dragon. He'll have power over lightning. That makes four eggs. One unexpected."
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