Chapter 46

Crystal and Leon found an old abandoned castle and decided to stay there until Nylla was fully healed. The dragons went out hunting mostly only at night and Crystal found herself looking threw the forest for herbs. She knew finding herbs and fruits would be needed to keep everyone alive.

Crystal was tending to Nylla's injuries when Starmist came into the abandoned castle. "Don't you think something is wrong?" she asked. Crystal remained quiet and thought about everything that has happened.

"Yes, I do think something is wrong, everything just feels off," Crystal replied. Starmist and Crystal took off on a flight one evening and what they saw shocked them. Starmist and her rider were hiding behind a tree when the ancient rainbow dragon landed. Her rider who was clearly bonded to her dismounted and to Crystal's shock it was one of the prince's from Callion.

Crystal studied the two for a while before daring to return to the abandoned Castel. Price Leon came back from his hunt when he saw Crystal's face. "What's wrong?" he asked.

Crystal walked towards the window and looked out towards the forest and river below. "The ancient rainbow dragon has a rider," Crystal said. "What, who is it?" prince Leon asked.

"It's one of Callion's prince's, ancient dragons are powerful but their power can corrupt them not only they themselves but also their riders. Leon, we are losing the ancient rainbow dragon. I don't think she has much time left Leon," Crystal said.

Prince Leon stayed quiet he knew that there were several ancient dragons that bonded to humans and didn't believe that what Crystal was saying was the truth but he didn't know if it was right either.

"They say there was a huge fire in a library and in the fire they lost almost all the information, regarding the dragons," prince Leon said.

"Is it far from here?" Crystal asked. "No, why do you ask?" prince Leon asked. "I think we should go there and take a look around maybe we will learn something about how to help Nylla?"

Prince Leon thought for a moment and said, "I don't see why not, we leave in the morning then," the prince said.

Crystal was mounting Forest the next morning when she thought that Prince Leon was behaving in a strange way. "Forest do you think something is wrong with Prince Leon?" Crystal asked.

Forest took a look at Prince Leon and said, "were we are going is a place of sorrow Crystal, many died in the great fire so it's been abandoned for many years," Forest answered.

She thought long and hard about what Forest said but couldn't imagine what the place would look like today. The night they arrived at the library Crystal couldn't see much but in the morning she was shocked at how much destruction there really was.

She looked over to Nylla and wondered if they would ever find any information on how to heal Nylla but worse on this war. She still had a feeling that it was just a misunderstanding but why she never understood and the truth is she might never understand.

Crystal carefully looked at the books that had survived the fire and all thought many were burned completely she soon found that the section on dragon types was still in tack. She saw that there were many different kinds of dragons.

Crystal soon found a book on crystal dragons and was surprised that she wasn't the first one to ride a crystal dragon.

They were known to be big and beautiful but what stood out about the crystal dragons was there ability to communicate over long distances and their speed. They were able to use elements including the use of fire, water and wind.

The most dangerous of the crystal dragon's could use earth and light. They were immune to most poisons and could resist extreme heat and there ability to become invisible. It was also recorded that some crystal dragons had gemstones covering their scales and that they were called the royals among the crystal dragons.

Crystal also read about a sickness that only crystal dragons could get.

The symptoms of the sickness would be that the dragon's wounds aren't healing at all in fact it's getting worse. They are consistently weak and is almost always asleep. This is called the crystal sickness and it can spread from one crystal dragon to another.

In order to heal this sickness, an elemental stone of light is needed and a water elemental stone would be needed. Crystal looked up at Nylla and she was worried about her.

Prince Leon saw Crystal's face and asked what was wrong.

She has the crystal sickness, the rainbow dragon gave Nylla the crystal sickness and Furry can get it from Nylla," Crystal said. Prince Leon looked at Furry and asked, "what can we do the heal her?"

Crystal looked at the book and said, "the light and water of the elemental stone will help but where to find them now," Crystal said.

Prince Leon looked at the remaining books and said, "let's keep looking, there has to be a book or some information on where the elemental stones can be found." Crystal shook her head and kept looking for information.

They spend almost most of the day looking threw many books and paintings. Crystal found a part of the library that seemed to have been sealed away from the public and as they entered the space Crystal realised she had seen this kind of information before.

"The library in Golsend, this was the kind of information in there before it was destroyed," Crystal said.

The prince looked around and asked, "are you sure?" Crystal looked around and said, "look I have read this book before but its not much use right now."

They kept looking hours into the night and in the early morning hours, they found the book they were looking for. The book showed Crystal were all the elemental stones could be found in fact they were from a cave deep within the mountain.

Crystal took everyone with her in the rider bracelet and started to travel deeper and deeper into the cave. Starmist was able to use her horn to create light so that it wasn't completely dark.

The deeper they travelled the more they saw and in the deepest darkest part of the cave. The light from Starmist horn created a beautiful rainbow. Crystal didn't want to be greedy but looking around she realised finding what they needed wasn't going to be easy.

She looked for hours before finding the elemental stones of water, earth, fire, storm, thunder, light, dark, crystal, ice and space. Crystal had carefully placed every stone in the box and before leaving she saw a tiny stone laying on the floor.

She took it for it looked really pretty and before placing it in the box she looked at it and felt a warm power coming from it. She learned that the tiny stone was known as a shielding stone or better known as a protector stone.

The days flew past and it was filled with knowledge and learning. Crystal had found a way to heal Nylla and to help Furry. They were getting better now healing slowly day by day until one day they were completely healed.

"Crystal you really are amazing, you know that?" Prince Leon said.

Crystal gave a smile and said, "where there's a will there will always be a way, no on to the next mission. If there's a cure for the crystal dragons there must be a way to free the dragons or at least understand the current situation," Crystal said.

They both agreed and continued to look for answers, both of them was learning bit by bit, more and more, every day. Then one day Crystal found a book on the dragon queen's history.

She read the history and realised, "the dragon queen was known as the queen or king of the Mystical realm but one day the gate closed and it's said that it will never open again," Crystal said.

"What is this Mystical realm?" Prince Leon asked. "It's a realm that is much like our own but only you have to go threw a gate to get there," Crystal replied. She kept reading and learned more day by day until one day she understood.

"This is all a miss understanding Leon" Crystal one day said. "Yes, I can see that and it needs to be fixed if the war will ever be over," Prince Leon said.

According to history the gate to the Mystical realm will close once every one hundred years and its true crown will open the gates. If he or she is successful she will be crowned queen but if unsuccess full there will be no ruler for the next one hundred years and only after one hundred years has passed will a new crown be chosen to rule once more.

Crystal looked at Leon and said, "what do we do now?" Leon looked around and said, "We keep on learning if there is ever to be an end to this war we will need to learn everything in history, in order to understand our past and what the future has in store for all of us?"