Prologue.
It was cold.
Of course, it was always cold on the South Pole. Humans weren't supposed to be here. But yet, in all the snow and sleet, there was a man. He was looking for something. Well, two somethings actually. He was making sure there were no polar bears nearby. The other thing he was looking for was why he was in Antarctica in the first place. It would change everything.
He could see the giant glacier he and the others were headed toward in the distance. Night was falling, and they had to set up camp. No polar bears in sight. Only some penguins, waddling along the ice. If he was right, soon, penguins and polar bears wouldn't be the only creatures here. He headed back to camp, thinking about how the whole world would soon change forever.
Chapter One.
Harry dreamed of dragons when he was young. All through his young childhood, he would wander through his small town in Wales, searching for signs of dragons. He could never find anything though. The eggs were bird eggs, the claw marks on a tree were from the neighbor's cat, that thing flying in the sky was a private plane. When he was four, Harry's mom had told him dragons were just fairy tales, myths, stories. Harry had been sad for a while after that, but then came to terms with it.
He lived a normal life after that, went to school, had normal interests of a Welsh kid in the 21st century, and had a boring, everyday life. He never lost his fascination with dragons though. When Harry was in high school, he showed great potential of being a scientist. His science teachers loved his biology projects, he eventually received a scholarship at a famous college. He studied at this college for years, fossils, dinosaurs, and cryogenics. He was eventually recruited by a team of paleontologists. He had gone from that weird kid in his small Welsh town who ran around, screaming about dragon eggs, to Dr. Harry Lexibridge. British scientist. One day, February 2nd, 2029, his life, and everyone else's changed forever.
It started when a Chinese explorer was brought into Harry's office. Lin Zhong. Harry had heard of Lin on the news. She was the only survivor of her explorer team. They had gone to Antarctica to check out a large glacier.
"Miss. Zhong, we are so sorry for your loss, we heard of you on the news." Said Dr. Samantha Giovanni, Harry's work friend. Harry offered Miss. Zhong some tea. "No thank you." She said. "Why are you here?" Sam asked Lin. "It is what my team and I found when we went out there." Miss. Zhong said. "It was… proof." "What do you mean, proof?" Harry asked her. Lin shifted in her chair. "You're going to think I'm either crazy, or lying." "We won't." Sam assured her.
Lin took a deep breath. "We entered a tunnel into the glacier, to escape from polar bears chasing us. It was Matthews who found it. An egg. A dinosaur egg. It survived, frozen in time." Harry gasped. Dinosaurs! Dinosaurs they could unfreeze and study. Harry's hand shook. It wasn't dragons, but it was something close. Everything changes. Soon.
Dr. Lexibridge dissolved into the ice cavern as Sharpclaws sat up. That dream. It seemed so real. Sharpclaws shivered his wings together. Scavengers with strange technology. That had to connect to the tunnel. He lit a stick on fire and used it to light the cavern. The door still looked as immovable as ever, but the first collection of runes seemed to give off a slight red glow. He could read it now. This confirmed his suspicions even more. Neither Sharpclaws' fellow Nightwings, nor the Icewings, whose territory the cavern was in, could know this.