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       The two had taken turns being in their bodies since they left the meadow; it had been about a week since they saw another dragon. Every person they meet on the rode Eymr would question them and see if they knew any Vips, sadly no one knew any. They decided to check near the ocean for it felt like they had already been everywhere else. They reached a village that was on the verge of being in the water but it had a spell around it to keep the water out, Reysh glowed black and changed to Eymr. He approached the village to be stopped by five men on horse.
       "Captain, this ones a Vip" said the rider farthest from the middle, the middle rider slipped off his horse and pulled out a long sword before he walked to Eymr. Eymr calmly said something to the horse with made bunk and go wild. As the captain turned to calm his horse Eymr knocked the rider that had spoken off of his horse and quickly calmed it down before he urged it to run into the town. The riders couldn't get their horse to calm down so they chased after Eymr on foot.
      "Eymr if you wanted a horse you could of said something and I could have gotten you one" said Reysh inside his head.
       "No, I had no intention to get a horse but this one misses the open plains and needs to be set free and I intend to do that later,” replied Eymr. At the middle of the town Eymr stopped the horse for the riders weren't to be seen, He noticed that there was no one around. He could see through the windows of buildings and saw that no one was there. He noticed a royal scroll on every wooden post, he walked to one and it read..."Tonight there shall be a Vip burning, all the Vips that have been captured are to be burned at sundown. Any Vips brought today before the fires go out will be rewarded handsomely for our advanced records have announced that there is only one Vip alive that is not captured. My orders, King Ocred. Eymr was startled at the news of the Vip burning; he stood up on the saddle and began to smell the air. He found the smoke smell and he quickly sat down and rode toward it, as the fire entered his eyesight he saw that he was to late. There were three female Vips on large post of wood and covered in flames, the flames began to eat at them so Eymr had to turn away.
       "I am sorry that you are the last Vip, but there might be captured Vips" said Reysh in his head as a king like person walked in front of the flames.
       "Friends those are the last Vips held in capture throughout all the kingdoms so that means that there is only one left and it happens to be a male. Who ever brings him to me will be rewarded with a horde of an orb dragon" said the king as the crowd cheered. Eymr turned the horse away and urged him to run to get him out of the village. Once they were far away from the village Eymr slowed and stopped the horse, he slipped off the saddle and the other things. Soon the horse was bare of all the things the rider had put on him, the horse neighed a thank you and ran into the forest.
       "I guess we do your quest now, since mine is finished" said Eymr as he glowed black and changed into Reysh.
      "The only way that we can stop him once and for all is to visit the shadow dragon Empire, but in flight it is three days away so we must leave now" said Reysh as he launched into the air and began to fly north. On the third day Reysh was now over the ocean and large icebergs began to appear, Reysh landed on a small iceberg and stomped on the ground and a tunnel appeared in the ground. Reysh dropped into it and it quickly covered over him, the floor that he stood on he became slippery. He lay on the ground and let himself slid across the floor, he was aware that he was gaining speed and he would need all the speed he could get. The floor began to twist and curve which gave him extra speed, he was sliding when he was launched into mid air. He would have opened his wings but that would of broken the speed spell that the ice gave and he wouldn't be able to continue, a few seconds past and he was in a tunnel again. The tunnel began to open up and it looked like he was sliding through a large cavern, he leapt up and grabbed onto a large icicle and swung himself to the right to pass through to a hidden room. The room was carved out of stone, in the center there were seven dragon statues carved out of magic. He walked to the center of them and knelt.
     "Shadow Dragon Empire, I am here for I have questions that need to be answered,” said Reysh as everything became quite. Black shadows slipped from the walls and crawled onto the statues giving them colors and their powers.
      "I see that you have returned, orb dragon of power" said the orb dragon of fire.
     "I have questions that need to be answered,” repeated Reysh.
     "We know why you have come and we have few answers to your many questions,” said the former orb dragon of power.
      "My first question is what must I do?" asked Reysh.
      "You must stop the evil and save the dragons,” said the said the orb dragon of water.
       "How would I do that?" asked Reysh as he began to grow impatient.
      "You must kill the evil one in a battle, he is waiting for you at the Central Dragon cave" said the orb dragon of earth
      "The Central Dragon cave, that would take any dragon a year to get there for the spell is still on it" shouted Reysh as the shadow dragons made no emotion to his outburst.
       "That's true but if a dragon goes by a portal made by seven different dragons they would get there quickly, but it will only take you to the outskirts of the cave's land" said the orb dragon of light.
     "Is there a price I must pay for the portal?" asked Reysh.
       "The only catch is that you stop the evil one,” said the orb dragon of water.
      "Is there any challenges at the cave?" asked Reysh.
       "Our power is blocked so we cannot tell if there is or isn't. Your time grows short, you must defeat the evil one now" said the orb dragon of intelligence. The seven dragons glowed their color, they then sent the glows in the center where the combined into one. Reysh nodded and stepped into the newly formed portal, when he left the shadow dragon empire were still there discussing things among themselves.
       "We should have told him what was going to happen to him,” said the former orb dragon of power.
       "You only want to tell him is because he's your son and if we told him it would alter the future,” said the orb dragon of fire.
      "I know but couldn't we of given him another day to enjoy being among the living" said the former orb dragon of power.
        "No, now is the time and he shouldn't of been called back from the dragon's death plain. But when he dies this time he will go to the dragons of legends and live forever" said the orb dragon of water. The former orb dragon of power sighed and there shadows slipped away and they became statues again. In the portal Reysh could feel each of the different powers of the orb dragons as their energy would come by, he could feel them giving him strength as they came to him. Soon the portal ended and he arrived at a place that was supposed to have large old trees and clear rivers, when he looked around he saw that the trees had been pulled out of the ground and the rivers were thick with things he didn't want to know. He turned in the direction of the cave and began to fly toward it, he meet no enemies and figured they were in the cave waiting to gang up on him.
      As he flew to the cave he saw no living creatures, there were no trees or plans. It was worse than when a dragon comes and burns things to the ground, he had made it to the cave and landed on the outer edge. He sensed for the traps and found that all but one had been destroyed, he glowed black and changed into Eymr.
      "Eymr, you must continue on into the cave for there is a dragon trap that traps all uninvited dragons that enter the cave" said Reysh from inside Eymr's head, Eymr nodded and quietly slipped into the cave. He was surprised that the inside of the cave looked like it had a rock tornado go threw it. (A rock tornado is a tornado that is mostly made of rocks and wind). He slowly stepped through the rubble to come to a blocked off section of the cave, apparently the rock tornado had died at the smallest part of the cave which that part led to their destination.
     "How are we going to get past it?" asked Eymr.
      "Just step threw, it's a very good illusion. The only thing it needs to be real it touch, I almost fooled me but I saw a ribbon snake go past it" answered Reysh from inside Eymr's head. Eymr took a deep breath and ran at the rocks, he expected to crash but he went threw the rocks. He stopped to find himself in a glorious cavern, it was lined with gold and he could feel the magic pulsing in the room. When his eyes fell to the floor he recoiled with horror and disgust, there were goblins in armor lying dead on the ground. Many of them had arrows in their backs and others with missing limbs. "There was a madness spell cast here not to long ago, it's a good thing for us because if they were alive we would be dead by now. Just keep going straight and approach the throne just ahead,” said Reysh as Eymr began to walk trying not to gag at what lie behind them.

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