In the vast continent of Hohonu the sun was starting to rise in the horizon shining soft and warm giving a pleasant feeling in the dragons who decided to take a trip to view the dawn. In the mountains the birds started to sing giving a welcome to the new day that has just started. The wind flow through the mountains making a relaxing sound while the leaves moves and some of them begin to fall, indicating that autumn was just a couple of weeks to arrive.
Inside the mountains, hidden from all curious and unwanted visitors, it was a cave that only a very few dragons knew about their location. In there lived three dragons who were responsible of a very important role. Litchi, a young raingwing with jade scales and a small tattoo on his arm, was running through the hallways skipping multiple rooms but with a clear objective. At the end he found the study room of his mentor where he entered quickly but then he stopped immediately at the entrance.
This room was filled with multiple shelves, all of them filled with scrolls and papers ordered in different ways. Multiple rocks illuminated the place with brightness imitating the sunshine, this enables all dragons in there to read without the need to go outside. In the wall in front the entrance, just in the middle, was a desk so you could put a scroll over it and read it comfortably. But in this case that desk was being used by another dragon, one bigger and clearly more mature than Litchi with silver scales and a tattoo similar to the small dragon, only that it was in his chest. He was reading one of the scrolls giving his back to the young dragon.
"I'm sorry!" said Litchi with a hurried voice "I'm sorry for being late, Frostbite!" saying that dragon's name with a worried voice.
The silver dragon put his talon on the scroll apparently in the place he stopped reading to turn his head afterwards so he could look closely at his company. Litchi could see that the older dragon had a disapproving look making him feel more guilty to arrive late.
"Jade scales" said Frostbite in a serious tone while he turned around his head again to look at his scroll again. "This is the third day in a row" while he took an hourglass that had aside the scroll, which one was pouring his sand from the upper part to the bellow one, and put it over it where he had his talon. "At least you are worry about this" giving a deep sigh that showed cold wind from his snout.
The emerald dragon knew what he was talking about the color of his scales. As a rainwing he had the ability to change the color of his scales at will, but he had the bad habit to change them unaware of it every time he felt a strong feeling. In this case was worry and guilt. That allowed to his mentor and partner know how he felt at every moment very easily.
"Ah… I…" Litchi started to stammer at the same time he moved his look away from Frostbite eyes at the same time his scales turned a little darker "Yesterday was a rough night"
"Yeah, I understand" Frostbite answered him while he observed the entrance and looked at Litchi again "Going to swim to the lake is very rough" tilting his head a little.
"Oh!" raised his head and opened his eyes surprised by the answer of his mentor, changing at the same time his scales to a sky-blue color "How did you… know?"
"I saw Thoughtseeker and you flying from there" while he stand up and started walking to the entrance "While I slipped away for a moment too" giving a friendly smile to Litchi and making a gesture to make him follow him "Talking about her, where is she?"
"I don't know" answered changing again his scales now being orange "When I woke up she wasn't in the room and I thought she was already with you"
"I'm going to talk with her in another moment" giving a soft pause "After punish her, obviously"
"Don't be hard with her" said with haste to defend her, now showing chocolate scales "She sometimes want to be alone, with her thoughts"
Toughtseeker was her friend or partner in their important role. She was a nightwing with the same age as him, with purple scales covering his body and silver ones at the side of her eyes simulating teardrops. But with those silver scales they came with a very powerful ability, to read minds. Litchi and Frostbite knew about it and knew how that could be very annoying for her, so she used to scape for herself to avoid reading his comrades thoughts.
"I'll keep it in mind when I talk with her" seriously at the same time he stopped in front a huge door.
Made in stone It was formed by two individual doors in a rectangular shape, both with the height of three adult dragons and the width of one and a half. At the same time each counted with a bar so you could pull or push it to open them. On them was carved the emblems of each kingdom with accompanied with a dragon of that clan. Mud, Rain and Sand in the left one; Ice, Night and Sea in the right, while the Sky was on top of rest.
Litchi understood that for Frostbite was a door that he looked for decades and maybe he was already bored about it, and it could be the same future to the little dragon. But even knowing it, he couldn't stop to feel interest and admiration by that work.
"Litchi" talked the silver dragon with a high tone so he could take the attention of his companion "Let's see how your studies are going. What is this?" pointing at the door in front of them.
"Ah… It's the first thing you thought us" he looked again to the door and looked down to think while his scales turned a peach color "The door of the seven seals" answered directly "The door that guards the seven seals"
"What are the seven seals?" asked again with the same serious tone.
"They are…" with doubt in his memories "They're a mechanism that keeps in jail to 'Las Indignas'" he looked the door again and watched the dragons in there. Those dragons were in there to represent them "If the seven seals are activated, they're going to be released. That's why we are in here, to keep it safe for all the kingdoms."
Frostbite nodded with his head "You are right. Want to go inside?" pointing with his head to the door.
"Inside?!" Litchi exclaimed surprised changing his scales to a dark blue "Me too?! I've never been inside" enthusiastic.
"Thoughtseeker and you have already five years living in here, with me" started to explain "Both of you are going to replace me some day, and I think it's time to let you see what is inside"
"That's true?" changing some of his scales to yellow "Wouldn't she… be better than me?" looking down "She es a lot better than me, she deserves it". Litchi remembered how she could resolve the problems faster than him and also how good she was with the lance. Quite the opposite of him, who couldn't resolve all the problems and clumsy with all the weapons only capable to use the shield.
"Both of you deserves it, Litchi. You just have different competences than her" kindly smiling to his pupil "I was waiting she was here too, so I could show it to both of you, but I don't know how long will it take for her…" leaving a moment of silent, maybe questioning himself where she was "I cant trust in you to open the door" pointing at the door again with his head.
Litchi changed all his scales to yellow giving a little smile "How can I open it? Do I need a special permission? A key?"
"Once you were selected to come in here, they give you the key" pointing at the tattoo in his arm, and then pointing at his own tattoo in his chest "You were able to open it from the beginning. Go ahead and open it"
"How exiting…" at the same time he put his claws in the door bars to open it.
Litchi was feeling a lot of emotions at the same time: happiness, anxiety, anticipation, surprise and curiosity making his scales change color multiple times while he was opening the door and looked inside it.
An enormous room was in the other side with seven lava waterfalls fallen from the ceiling in the other extreme covering each of them the entrance to little caves, while in the center there were seven little pillars.
All this room was enchanted by an animus dragon centuries ago. The door was enchanted so only the chosen could open and close it, so anyone couldn't enter or get out from there. The walls and ceiling were created so anything could destroy them, from explosions and earthquakes to even another animus magic; also, they helped to keep a neutral temperature inside. The little caves were created to prettify any dragon inside while lava was flowing on their entrance. The holes in the ceiling where enchanted to always secrete lava while at least one seal was missing from the pillars. It was a prison made with pure magic, a prison for seven dragonesses, the most dangerous dragonesses in the seven kingdoms.
Litchi was amazed by all of this, but there was something that called more his attention.
"Thoughtseeker?" he asked as he spotted her in the center of the room "What is she doing in here?" he asked in a curious way, and then he knew what was happening.
She was just next to the pillars. Six of them already had a crown over them, and she was holding another one.
"NO!" Frostbite yelled running and trying to stop her, but his effort was futile.
She put the last crown in the last pillar, moment that a big and strong "CLICK" echoed in the room. The unthinkable had just happened and the lava flow stopped immediately.
Litchi didn't understand what was happening, a lot of questions where in his mind. One thing that was clear is that the prisoners were released and they where in a mortal danger. Fear, fright, terror, panic, horror, he wanted to do something, but he couldn't think straight.
"GO AWAY!" he listened to Frostbite "GET OUT OF HERE! RUN AWAY LITCHI!"
"Run away? Of what?" they listened from another voice, a soft and calm female voice. Litchi and Frostbite looked at that direction where they found a dragoness a little bigger than Frostbite with her huge stretched wings and scarlet scales, she was a Skywing. "Is any danger in here? I don't see anyone" at the same time she showed a grim smile.
With a fast and powerful move of Frostbite's tail he hit Litchi making him react "BEGONE!"
Before the small dragon could do anything, he could see how the Skywing extended her arm and held Frostbite snout closing it tightly "You are noisy" she said.
Litchi could see how the silver dragon eyes where switching between him and the dragoness, moment where he took the decision to run away leaving Frostbite and Thoughtseeker behind. He followed the fastest way to the exit and where he arrived prepared himself to take flight, but a blow on his side knocked him down.
"Are you leaving them?" a new voice talked to him. It came from another dragoness, in this case a Seawing with aquamarine scales in her abdomen but sapphire in the rest of her body, a tight tail "They're going to die, did you know?" She tilted her head a little without losing him "What kind of hero are you?" in a sarcastic voice.
Litchi feared what could happened, he knew that he could scape from her with his poor skills and low experience in combat, so he decided to use his ultimate resource just banishing, becoming invisible himself just in front of her.
The young dragon could see the confusion in her enemy face and hopes of scape from there raised, but all changed when she closed her eyes and smiled again.
"I admit that your camouflage is the best that I've seen, even better than Belladona" while she was stroking her hand in the ground taking dust and rocks from there "But I can still smell you… hear you" and in that moment she throw what she had in her hands.
The rocks and dust hit Litchi revealing his location, opportunity she didn't miss and jumped over him keeping him in place. As an ultimate defense Litchi spit a stream of poison right into her eyes, but how big his surprise when it just felt as if it were water.
"I came prepared" she said with proud and a smile at the time Litchi couldn't support more the fear and lost his invisibility showing how white his scales were.
The sound of beating wings could be listened and Litchi's hope rose again when he saw the silver scales of the dragon who landed just a couple of meters on his side, but looking carefully he saw another dragoness, she wasn't Frostbite but another Icewing.
"His camouflage is going to be a problem" she said looking at him while being held on the ground "Let me take car of it" at the time she grabbed his left arm with her bare claws.
That was the moment that Litchi felt the worst pain that he ever felt. He yelled from pain and started to thrash about on the ground, moment where the Seawing quite from him and just contemplate. Tears started to roll from his eyes and grabbed his arm and could feel how cold it was. He was suffering from frostbite where she grabbed him, and his scales where totally frozen.
"With those scales he won't be able to camouflage ever again" said the white dragon now where more dragons appearing in the scene.
A dragoness with a robust body and a wide muzzle, as well as brown scales stand aside the ice dragon. With her another dragoness with appearance like Litchi but grown up and scales with a grant variety of color that changes constantly as oil in water. Aside the sea dragoness one with black scales like Thoughtkeeper stood, in contrast the one with yellow scales and a sting in the tip of her tail at her side. At the end, the scarlet dragon who fought Frostbite arrived.
If she was here what happened to Frostbite? Litchi thought starting to tremble.
"What do we do with him?" the dark dragoness asked to her companions.
"We believe that the best is to get rid of him" said the brown dragoness.
Seeing the seven dragonesses in front of him and listening her words made Litchi's fear to grow stronger. He wanted to run away, escape, not be able to be followed any more by them. He knew that he couldn't win against one of them, less with all the seven. His horror was such that he forgot about the pain in his frostbitten arm and somewhat bring him strength to camouflage again.
"Did you not freeze his arm?" the dragoness with the sting in her tail asked.
"I did" the ice dragon with a serious face "He shouldn't be able to do it"
"That doesn't matter" the sapphire one "He's so fearful that he's still in front of us"
That's when Litchi understood that being invisible wasn't enough, it won't work against them. He wished to not be just invisible, but he couldn't be heard or sniffed, that he couldn't be found by a mind reader or a clairvoyant dragon, not even by an animus dragon. He just wanted to disappear.
"I just want to return with that stupid king as soon as possible… ¿What are we waiting for?" talked the scarlet dragon, showing a wide and big smile.