The Key to Dragons Chapter 2
The green scaled dragon, Terrador, lead Luke through the temple as they came to a center room. All of the ceilings in the temple were really tall compared to what Luke was used to. He looked and saw that the room had no chairs and an open middle with a pool of water or something similar to it in the center of it. Standing grouped in a circle around the room were 3 more dragons. Luke assumed that these were the other Dragon Elders.
Terrador stopped and Luke stood in between him and the crimson scaled dragon. The crimson dragon had 2 horns sticking out the back of its head, a spiky main on its back neck and head, red spikes surging down its back, and a long stripped tail that was about the length of its body.
In fact all the dragons had tails of about that length and were about 10 feet in height standing on all fours. Luke from his perspective felt relatively short since he was only 5' 8'' in height; Although, he didn't mind it too much. He knew that the red dragon must be a master of fire considering his color.
Looking at the other 2 was a golden scaled dragon, with light blue wings, whom apparently was a master of lightning. The last dragon had a blue scaled outer coat with purplish wings and a purple tinted underside. Luke assumed his profession was ice.
"These are the other Dragon Elders, my name is Terrador." Terrador introduced himself to Luke.
"Each of us are masters of a certain element as well being the Leaders of the I am a master of the Earth element."
Luke stood there looking at the group.
"My name is Volteer, I am the Lightning elder." The golden dragon said.
"I'm the ice guardian Cyril; I come from a blood line of high and mighty noble dragons." Cyril bragged.
Luke rolled his eyes and ignored him.
"I am Ignitus, the Leader of the Elders and the Fire Guardian." The red dragon introduced himself.
Luke tried to soak up all the stuff just said to him. Giving a yawn as he squeezed the last of his sleep out of him, he introduced himself.
"Well, my name's Luke, Stephen Luke Todd is my full name. I go by Luke though." Luke stated.
"Nice to meet you." Ignitus said.
"Pleasure to be of acquaintance." Volteer replied.
"Pleased to meet you." Cyril said.
Terrador then motioned to Luke. "Well Luke you wouldn't mind to explain to us about yourself, would you?" He asked.
"Well how should I begin?" Luke thought to himself. "Okay well I'm from a place called Earth."
Luke then told the group about his adventures in Ratchet's World and about the story of the Nobody's and Heartless.
"Oh, how about that weapon you wielded earlier?" Volteer asked interested.
"You mean this." Luke said as he held out his hand.
A beam of light flashed and the Keyblade appeared in his hands.
"Amazing." Volteer said impressed. Terrador and Ignitus nodded their heads agreeing with Volteer. Cyril simply acted like he's seen better and just watched.
"So what, it's just an oversized key, what's so special about that?" Cyril remarked. Luke gave a simple smile.
"What's so funny?" Cyril stated.
Luke pointed out to look at his tail laughing. "AH!!! My tail!" the dragon cried. Cyril's tail had been burned by something unseen to him.
"Ignitus why did you do that?" he demanded.
Ignitus gave a look confused as to why he was accusing him. "I didn't do that. Someone else must have." He said in his defense. Cyril's face was boiling mad.
Terrador and Volteer couldn't help but let a laugh. Cyril's gaze then deadlocked on Luke.
"I was the one who did that." Luke admitted. "Firaga Spell! Basic magic for me." He stated.
"So you're a master of fire?" Ignitus asked.
Luke shook his head indicating no. "I can do just more than fire magic; I have powers of Ice, Electricity, Gravity, Time, Wind, and some others as well." He explained.
"That's impossible, how can you have mastery over more than element when dragons like us, except Spyro, have trouble mastering 2 elements at a time?" Volteer asked.
Luke gave a sigh. "It's because where I came from magic works differently. I found these elements along my adventures and they gave me access to those powers. I can do magic of all that to some extent but my main focus is weapon combat. The keyblade is the one that channels most of the magic. Using magic I can also perform special weapon techniques; for example Strike Raid, Sonic Blade, Arcs Arcanum, and Ragnarok."
"So that explains the blinding flashing light, the blue armor change, and the enhanced magic form." Terrador said.
"Exactly!" Luke finished for him.
"What about if somebody takes the keyblade?" Cyril asked. "If I took it I would gain those abilities as well."
"Why don't you try it out and see." Luke said holding out the Keyblade. Cyril walked forward and held it.
Cyril then felt something pulling on the weapon as he held it.
"What?" he said as the keyblade disappeared out of his hands.
The keyblade then reappeared in Luke's hand. "So that's it." Cyril said.
"Yeah, only those deemed worthy enough can wield the Keyblade." Luke said. Cyril looked at Luke.
"So what saying is that you're better than me?" Cyril said taunting Luke. Luke jumped back scared.
"No that's not it at all." Luke said nervously.
Cyril looked like he was about to lunge and attack Luke there if he wasn't with the other Elders.
"Cyril, that's enough of that, we don't want you scaring off our new ally. From our position in the war now, we need all the help we can get." Terrador informed Cyril. Cyril gave up the charade and hushed his mouth.
Luke looked up at Ignitus. "So I'm welcome to stay here?" he asked confused.
Ignitus gave out a smile. "You're welcome here anytime you please. After that performance you practically saved us all." He replied.
Luke looked down modestly.
"Oh that it was nothing. I've fought ton of creatures like those before." He laughed. "Well if that said and done, I'm going back to my study." Volteer said trailing off down the hallway through a pair double door. Luke saw that the sign above it said 'Library' on it.
"Why am I not surprised." He said to himself. Terrador turned back and left the room as well, followed by Cyril. The only ones left in the room now were Ignitus and Luke.
Luke was looking out window thinking to himself. "Luke." Ignitus said calling out to the adolescent youth. Luke jumped as he came back to reality.
"Yes Ignitus." Luke said back.
"Why don't I show around the city and show you how things are run around here." He said.
Luke thought for a moment.
"Sure, not like I didn't have anywhere to go." He answered. Luke and Ignitus walked outside the temple as he showed Luke around. It was almost completely dark outside by the time Luke and Ignitus returned.
The door opened letting the 2 in and they made their way to the cafeteria. "So what is there to eat?" Luke asked openly.
Ignitus grabbed some fish and sat down. "Well just look around and help yourself. There's plenty of food to go around.
After eating Luke and the other elders met in the center room.
"So do I get my own room to sleep in?" Luke asked.
"Most of the time yes, but seeing how we don't have anywhere else for you to sleep you're going to have to sleep in the same as one of us." Volteer said.
"Well who am I bunking with?" Luke demanded.
Cyril and Volteer jumped back.
"Well…" Ignitus said.
"Terrador, Luke will be staying with you."
Cyril and Volteer breathed a sigh of relief.
"Alright." The Earth Guardian replied.
Volteer, Ignitus, and Cyril then left the room after saying good night. Luke followed Terrador to his quarters.
They walked into the room and Luke took off his boots and set them next to his makeshift straw bed. Terrador curled up at the other side of the room and fell asleep.
Laying back looking at the ceiling Luke thought to himself. He thought of why he was here and if he would ever see his friends back in Lylat again.
"I wonder how mom and dad are taking it. I wonder if they are okay. Do they even know the truth about why I can't come back? And who was that guy in the black mass? He sounded like Malefor but I don't know. All I do know is that the Nobodies being here just makes it worse. What do they want with Malefor?"
All of those questions and many more reverberated in his thoughts as he tried to come with an answer for it.
"I'm not going to find any answers losing sleep over it though." He finally gave up.
Luke looked at Terrador. His snoring could be heard pretty loudly but it didn't bother him in the slightest.
"Alister, Ratchet, Axel." I miss all of you he said as he cried a tear before falling asleep.
That night Luke started having a nightmare. Another nightmare like the one before but this time it was worse.