Chapter 28

The riders were shocked, "how is it possible to control humans as well as dragons?" Simon asked. Forest looked at Rose who said, "we do not know but what we do know is that we have never felt and evil like this before, that is why the dragon queen's power is needed" Rose said.

"Just what makes the dragon queen so special all I have been doing has been to prepare for more injured dragons arrival," Crystal said. "My dear you are doing so much more than just preparing for our arrival," Alya said. "What do you mean?" Crystal asked.

"The story goes back as far as the first dragon riders you see there was a group of dragons known as the first ones. One of then the dragon of light chose a human to become her rider and that was how the first dragon rider came to be known.

The other first ones were angry saying she was only showing the world how weak she is" Sakura said. "There were humans that didn't like this arrangement either and so a war broke out, and in fear, many were killed.

The dragon of light and her rider chose to separate in order to stop the war but the war only got worse and soon it was discovered that the humans had a wizard that was using dark power.

The dragon of light went to fetch her rider and to tell her of the news but discovered she had lost her rider to the darkness but unknowingly the dragon of light purified the darkness and her rider was set free.

The first ones knew what had to be done" Ferrum said. "Everyone of the first one's gave the rider a trial where she gained there name as proof that she passed there trial.

Five pillars were activated and three towers were also eventually activated threw these trials but after the rider passed the final two trials the last of the first ones arrived. This dragon has never appeared to any human before and she two gave the rider her trial.

She named the rider Queen of the riders and asked her to look after the Golsend kingdom so that the first ones will always have a home," Aqua said.

"The war got worse many came here to be healed and to hide from the evil. The queen one day had enough of the evil surrounding her island and chose to fight the dark Wizzard" Drake said.

"In the end, the darkness was defeated but the queen was never the same again, for war is no easy feat for anyone and one day she didn't wake up again. It's said that the dragon of light followed soon after and the rainbow dragon revealed herself once more declaring that this island will remain in her memory" Thunder said. "What happened to the first ones," Crystal asked.

"Nothing is forever Crystal the first once had there time and had to go one at a time but it is said that in times of great danger the firestones will arrive to help the new queen of riders," Forest said.

Crystal looked around and asked, "so the next task is to find the three towers?" Crystal asked. "The ancient dragon guarding each tower will arrive first and give you there test. If you pass they will build the tower them selfs," Drake said.

Crystal took a deep breath and asked, "Do you think that Eione discovered the same darkness the first wizard created the war with." Crystal asked. "I do not know but if he has we are all in trouble," Forest said

Crystal spends the next few days cleaning the statue of the first queen. She fixed the fountain and soon discovered that the broked rock was a statue of the firest dragon of light.

She decided to fix the statue and found some old building materials laying around in the village. "What are you doing?" Nylla asked. "Fixing this statue, it's important right?" Crystal asked Nylla.

It took a long time and with the help of the other riders, the fountain was repaired. The riders found several other dragon statues are that they also started fixing and it wasn't long before Crystal realised the original island was a beautiful island to live on.

The storm dragons soon came down from the sky to rest their wings and so many other dragons started to arrive in need of help but they were not the only ones coming for help.

Many other mythical creatures have now fled to the island as well. Crystal was happy when help from the kingdom of Callion arrived including an elve that was known as a healer. She and a few other elves were happy to help Crystal.

They all set to work planting many healing herbs, trees and vegetables. The days that followed preparations were coming along at a really fast rate. The fields of grains were being harvested and the grain was put into storage so that even more grain can be planted.

Then one morning Crystal came out of her home and said three new ancient dragon elders that have arrived. The one was snow white and clearly an ice dragon type. Then there was a thunder dragon judging from the lightning sparks that came of his wings the last was a hard dragon to guess.

"What type of dragon are you?" Crystal asked. "The dragon looked at the other dragon and said, "I am a space dragon we live on islands that many humans do not dare to cross.

We control gravity and many of our powers including most elements but the reason why we are called space dragons is that we can travel higher than any other dragon." Crystal looked around and noticed that the space dragon had brought with him a few dragons of his kind and to Crystal's amazement so has the Ice dragon and the lightning dragons.

Simon came towards Crystal and said, "I know we need to take everyone in but where are we going to give them homes." Simon asked. Crystal thought and realised the islands the elemental stones were hidden on. Some of them could be ideal for these three dragon kinds.

"They were our original home long before the fall of the Golsend kingdom and we would gladly take them back."

The space dragon said and left to the island. Crystal stood shocked as she saw the dragons leave in three directions and wondered. What this trial was actually going to be about. "I wonder if this is really okay?" Crystal asked.

Nylla who had been watching came closer and said, "I don't think this trial is the same as the trials before?" Nylla said

Crystal looked at Nylla and said, "You think so?" Starmist who was grazing came towards Crystal and said, "I heard that this is how they tested the original queen," Crystal didn't look amused.

She decided to keep working on cleaning the island up. That day she started to clean the old palace up taking down paintings moving furniture outside. She even threw away all the old wood from the library including any books that she wasn't able to save.

The more Crystal cleaned to palace the more she realises how big the palace really was. It was when she discovered a really old vault and opened the vault that she discovered many pieces of jewellery but one of the oldest books she has ever seen.

The book was about half a meter long and about half a meter in width. It was really thick and it was full of dust.

Crystal carefully cleaned the book and soon saw many different colours but also pictures of the dragon statues. She carefully opened the book and tried to read the first page. The writing was done neatly and clearly but some of the pages were falling apart from the books old age.

"It must be the book of beginning, I think," Simon said when he saw the book. "Why do they call it the book of the beginning?" Crystal asked

Simon sat down and said, "It's said that the book of the beginning was one of the first books ever written by dragon riders.

It tells our history where we come from and how we came to be but not from a dragons point of view but from a riders point of view. Dragons tell storeys to pass on years of knowledge but books tell us our story," Simon said.

Crystal started reading the book carefully and only found that it only contained the names of riders and dragons but it didn't have any of the first one's names or dragons there.

Crystal kept cleaning the vault fiding many valuable crowns and jewellery but it was when she saw the black diamond the king had given to the queen that she realised why the kingdom really fell. She looked took a fly over the island and noticed the beauty of the island that only confirmed her suspicion.

"The king and queen were only about money and valuable jewellery they didn't really protect the island. Simon came to Crystal and said, "What is wrong Crystal?" Crystal looked at Simon and said, "I know why Golsend had to fall,"

Simon took a step back and asked, "Why?" Crystal showed Simon all the jewellery and said, " I see a lot of money spend on jewellery and nothing spend on why the rainbow dragon chose the first rider to be queen.

This book has only names of riders and dragons but nothing on the first once. Crystal took a deep breath and showed Simon the black diamond and said, "They killed thousands for a stupid rock,"

Simon looked at the rock and said, "It's not really that beautiful but what to do with it now," Simon asked. "I am going to clean this vault and lock it again until I can think about what to do with the contents," Crystal said. Simon and Crystal closed the vault at the end of the day.