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Chapter 7

"Wow," said Irma as she watched the racers and their dragons run down the track.

"Wow's right" said Taranee "I never thought dragons can go that fast."

"Actually they can go much faster," said Parmon "when they use red speed burst gear." Parmon then went back to coaching Artha.

"Drac," said Lance "look at that rider go he's beating everyone even Kitt."

"That's not good," said Parmon "We won't hear the end of it after the race if she loses."

"Hey Lance can I see your binoculars for a sec." said Hay Lin.

"Umm…sure" said Lance handing Hay Lin his binoculars.

"Thanks" said Hay Lin taking the binoculars and focusing them one the lead rider. "Oh my…" Hay Lin cried "Cornelia come look at this."

Cornelia ran over to Hay Lin and took the binoculars that were handed to her. Placing them against her eyes Cornelia looked down at the winding track and asked, "What I am I to be looking at?"

"The lead racer," said Hay Lin "And look closely."

Cornelia focused the binoculars on the lead competitor. Suddenly her mouth dropped and she lowered the binoculars. "Caleb" she cried, "Caleb is here."

"What? No way." Shouted Irma "it can't be." Then grabbing the binoculars Irma looked to see for herself. "It is." Irma then handed the binoculars to Taranee who also took a look then passed them to Will.

"He must have got here the same way we did," said Will, "Through a portal."

The girls took a glance a Parmon as if to check if he heard them then looked around for Lance "Hey," said Irma "Where is Lance?"

"He went to get some thing to eat," said Parmon not looking up from the communicator.

"That sounds like a good idea," said Irma putting a hand on her stomach "Hey, Parmesan where can we get some food?"
"Just go down the stairs and hang a left," said Parmon "and don't call me Parmesan that's a cheese."

"Okay" said Irma going down the stairs "whatever."

"See I'm not the only one who hates you r nicknames Irma," said Cornelia.

"But Corny" said Irma "It's so fun."

Cornelia gave Irma a warning glance and said, "Don't call me Corny."

"Okay, Corny" said Irma running around the left corner.

"IMRA" yelled Cornelia running after her.

Will started to smile then so did Hay Lin and Taranee. Finally they could not hold it in any longer and they started to laugh.

The girls laughed all the way to the food stand but on reaching they found they carried nothing they were familiar with.

"Dragon-aid? Mag-bars? Chocolate dragons?" said Cornelia "What is stuff?"

"Food?" Irma suggested "Anyway I'm hungry."

"Hey guys" said Hey Lin "What if Dragon-aid was like Gatorade and mag-bars are mars-bars?"

Will laughed "But what about Chocolate-dragons?"

"Oh that's easy," said Hay Lin "There like those chocolate bunnies you get at Easter."

The cashier was getting very inpatient and decided to but in "Are you going to by something? Or stand here wasting my time?"

"Sorry," said Taranee "We're new around here and we have never heard of the food you carry. What do you suggest?"

"I suggest the mag-bars," said a voice behind them. At that the girls turned to face the man they had run from earlier. "Aren't you the girls from earlier?" he asked. The girls just nodded. "Why did you run?"

"You looked scary," whispered Irma.

The man then laughed "Scary. Never been described like that mostly I am said to be intimidating." Then turning the cashier he said "Six mag-bars, David." The cashier went to go get the bars. "I'm Phistus," said the man "Leader of the Grip of the Dragon Crew and Head of the Down City Council."

"Down City Council?" said Will confused.

"You really are new to Dragon City," said Phistus "Well it has members of all the different crews in it. You do know what the crews are?" the girls nodded and he continued "We discuss the going on in Dragon City and decide what to do about any problems that arrive." Then he turned toward the counter and took the six mag-bars and handed the cashier some bills with different dragons on it. Then turning back to the guardians he said, "Come-on lets go sit down."

The girls followed Phistus to one of the tables behind the store. Sitting down Phistus handed each of the girls one of the bars.

"I'm sorry," said Will "We can't take these. We have no way to pay you back. You see we don't have any money."

"Take it," said Phistus pushing it into Will's hands "Think of it as a sorry for scaring you five."

"Okay," said Will, "Thank you"

"Don't mention it," said Phistus "By the way I don't think I heard your names."

"Oh, sorry. I'm Will Vandom."

"Irma Lair" said Irma with her mouth full of mag-bar so it sounded more like "I'm a ware."

"She said Irma Lair" translated Hay Lin "I'm Hay Lin."

"Cornelia Hale."

"Taranee Cook"

"Well it is nice to meet you all," said Phistus "but I must be getting back to the track the race must be almost over and I should get back to the track."

"Okay" said Will.

"Bye" said the girls in unison.

"I think we should get back too" said Will standing up and the girls followed.

After getting lost twice the girls made it back to the box in time to see the young man the girls said was Caleb cross the finish line.

"Oh there you are" said Parmon when he saw the girls "We should get back to the tent and wait for Artha and Kitt. But I hate to see how they will be taking the loss."

This time the girls were able to keep up with Parmon and Lance only to find an extremely angry Kitt and Artha.

"I can't believe I lost," shouted Artha. "Like really who is this new rider?"

"Ya" said Kitt "He was even better than me. I wonder where the Grip of the Dragon Crew found him."

"Probably the same place you found us" said Cornelia

"What do you mean?" ask Artha.

"Well," said Will "We think it is a boy from Meridian. His name is Caleb but we're not sure yet."

"We could go find out" suggested Kitt "All we need to do is go to the Grip of the Dragon's Crew's tent."

"Okay" said the girls mounting their dragons along with Parmon and Lance.

"Let's go!" cried Irma.

The girls followed Kitt toward the Grip of the Dragon tent and it was Cornelia who saw him first.

"Caleb" she cried jumping of her dragon and running towards him.

"Cornelia?" exclaimed Caleb "How did you end up here?"

"A portal" said Cornelia as the rest of the guardians joined them "How did you?"

"I also went through a portal and ended up here," said Caleb.

"How long have you been here?" asked Will.

"About a week" said Caleb "Why?"

"Have you found a way back?" piped-up Irma.

"No. What are you girls getting at?"

"So your saying it wasn't you who told us to go through that portal?" questioned Taranee.

"It wasn't me," yelled Caleb anger showing in his face, "It was you five that told me to go through that portal."

"No it wasn't" cried Cornelia tears coming to her eyes "It wasn't us."

"Come on Cornelia," said Irma placing her hand on Cornelia's shoulder, "Lets go back to Penn Stables and try to figure this out."

"Okay," said Cornelia wiping her eyes and turning to get back on her dragon.

"You might as well come," said Will to Caleb anger really showing in her voice.

"Why should I?" muttered Caleb turning away for the guardians.

"Because this also concerns you," stated Will, "We can't go into details here but if you come with us we know a place we can talk with out being over herd."

"Fine," said Caleb "Just let me go tell Phistus and the crew I meet them at the council later."

The girls nodded and waited for Caleb to return. When he did he was riding a green bull-class dragon.

"Nice dragon," said Irma to Caleb as they followed Artha, Kitt, Parmon, and Lance back to Penn stables.

On arriving Artha and his friends left the Guardians with Caleb so they could talk.

"Let's put our dragons in the stable," suggested Taranee "Then we can talk in there."

"Good idea," said Will dismounting her dragon and leading her towards the stable "It will be more private in there." Then seeing the girls' faces she added "It's not like I don't trust Artha and the others I just like this is something we need to work out be ourselves first."

The girls nodded.

Caleb then added, "I don't trust them."

"When have you ever trusted anyone you haven't met yet?" asked Hay Lin.

"I trusted you guys when I first met you" replied Caleb.

"That's different," said Irma leading her dragon, Dax, in to the stable "We are the guardians your suppose to trust us."

"Well I don't know if I can now," Caleb told the Guardians.

"For Meridians sake, Caleb," cried Cornelia "We didn't tell you to go through that portal. You told us to go through it."

"We did not!" yelled four of the five guardians.

"Um…" it was Taranee "That man, Mortis. He wants to talk to us. Meaning us in the stable."

"How do you know, Taranee?" asked Hay Lin.

"He-"

"Telepathy" said Will cutting Taranee off.

"Let's go!" shouted Irma "Um… how do we get there?"

"Like this" said Hay Lin moving a harness hook on the wall to open a hidden door. (She was paying attention when Artha moved it).

"Oh ya" said Irma walking on to the elevator "I knew that."

"Come on Caleb," said Cornelia grabbing Caleb's hand and pulling him into the elevator "He asked for all of us."

Once they reached the bottom the guardians plus Caleb exited the elevator only to find Mortis waiting for them.

"Who might this be?" Mortis asked looking at Caleb.

"That's-" said Irma but she was interrupted by Caleb.

"I'm Caleb" he said "leader of the Meridian Rebel Forces. We are-"

"Ya ya," said Irma "trying to get the rightful hair to the crown back on the throne. Not everyone is interested in hearing your speech."

"Guys" said Will "Not everyone is interesting in hearing you fight either."

With that Hay Lin, Taranee and Cornelia started to laugh.

"Shut it!" yelled Caleb and the girls stopped.

"I see you six are having an argument," said Mortis in a fatherly tone "My I ask what it is about?"

"Well," said Caleb "The girls here said I lead them through a portal in to this world."

"But" said Cornelia "He lead us through the same one a week later. Well I think it was the same one." "Anyway we are on Earth, Caleb," said Irma "Only difference is we are in the future. "

"Okay" said Mortis "Maybe I can help you but you have to start at the beginning."