Chapter 3

Meetings

Deep within the Royal Palace of the Gold Dragon empire a blue and yellow light appeared in the one of the hallways. The lights deposited four dragons and their riders on the hard floor with a loud THUD.

"Ow! What the heck was that?" Artha yelled rubbing his back only to realize that the back he was rubbing was not his but belong to a someone much smaller than him.

He was rubbing the back of the Keepers' leader.

"Would some one mind telling me just what in the scales just happen. And who's ever foot that is better get out of my face before I rip it off!" A female voice said from somewhere on the bottom of the pile.

"Well that'll work. Kill two birds with one stone." Conner said being the first to get out of the pile, followed by two of the Dragons.

"Beau get your tail out off my face." Artha yelled as a blue dragon tail waved around in his face.

"Everyone just calm down." Conner said as he pulled the small Keeper out from underneath the pile of the humans and dragons.

"Easy for you to say Mortis, you don't have a dragon on your back" The female voice yelled.

"Beau is not that heavy." Artha yelled back.

"I was talking about my dragon not yours. Talaes get OFF me now." The girl screamed causing all four of the dragons that were in the pile to jump out of the pile.

"You two okay?" Stewward asked as he help Artha up while Mortis help the girl.

"Ask me that when my back doesn't fell like a ton of rocks fell on it." The girl complied as she rubbed her back.

"Would somebody PLEASE tell me what is going on?" Artha yelled turning to face his father only to come face to face with a girl his age and height with purple hair with white bangs. The purple of her hair was done in a high ponytail with a circle of braids around the base. Her white bangs were done in two braid starting at the top of her head and ending her waist. What shocked him was her eyes, they were the same as his. Artha study the girl up and down. His eyes came across the pendant that she wore. It was the same as the one that Conner had given him only this one was blue instead of gold.

Kiva saw the two pendants that the boy her age wore. She saw that he had the same pendant as her only it was gold instead of blue.

"Well it seems that the powers of the Gold Dragon still live in those pendants as we are all here." Stewward said in his mouse-like voice.

The two teenagers gave the Keeper a confused look. As on cue the two pendants glowed blue and yellow. The teens were bathed in the lights for a few moments until the light faded showing the two heirs dress in what appeared to be royal garbs. Artha had on a blue shirt that had gold trimming on the neck and sleeves. On his arms were gaulets outlined with gems in the designs of a Dragon. His pants were also blue with gold trimming. He wore boots that went up to his knees. He also wore a cape that had two dragons one blue and the other gold with their backs to each other. This was the symbol of the Gold Dragon kingdom.

Kiva had on a gold dress that came to her knees with slit going up to her waist. Like Artha she had trimming on her neck and sleeves, only her sleeves were butterfly like. She wore blue pants underneath the dress with no heeled boots. Her hair was out of the ponytail and flowed down to her waist with half of it in a braid crown around the back of her neck. The white braids stayed the same. She also had a cape with the two dragons on it

"Okay this is really starting to scare me." Kiva said as she looked herself over in one of the mirrors. She had never been a person to were a dress so she feeling a little out of her element right now. She didn't mind the outfit if fact she thought that it was kinda cool. What she had a problem with was the sliver crown shaped in a dragon that was on top of her head. She looked over at the boy that she figured to be her brother. He had the same look on his face as she did. The crown he had on was gold instead of sliver.

"The likeness in close." Conner said causing the teens to come out of their trance. Both looked like their parents when they were 16.

"You weren't joking when you told me who I was Mortis." Artha said as he looked himself over. He kinda liked the way he was dressed but he hated the cape.

He was about to say something when the girl that he knew was his sister screamed at Stewward.

"YOU NEVER SAID ANYTHING ABOUT ME BEING A PRINCESS! Kiva yelled looming over the small goblin-like creature. "AND IF YOU THINK FOR ONE MOMENT THAT I'M GOING TO WERE A FANCY DRESS YOU HAVE ANOTHER THING COMING FATHER."

"You are your mother's daughter." Conner said grinning at the screaming girl. As he recalled Dracoa wasn't a person to like dresses much either and she could yell LOUD when she got mad too.

An hour later and much yelling coming from both Artha and Kiva and explaining about why they were separated from each other. The group along with the dragons made their way around the castle after both teens took care of the dragon crowns they were wearing.

"So Word tried to kidnaped us and start a Dragon-Human war?" Kiva asked. She knew a little about what had happen 16 years ago but never thought that she was one of the infant heirs.

"Yes by having you two in his army there would be no way a Dragon Booster could be found." Conner told Kiva who stop and looked up at a picture that had survived the war. It was a picture of a man and woman holding two infant babies, a boy with black hair and blue undertones and a girl with purple hair and white bangs.

"Artha take a look at this." The purple haired girl said calling her brother over to the picture.

Artha looked at the picture. What he saw was his face in the woman and his sister in the mans. "I think those are our parents Kiva."

"They are. I swear you look just like them." Stewward told them.

"HOLY SCALES!"

Artha screamed as he was the picture of the Gold Dragon Crew. His eyes drifted to a young woman standing beside a black dragon. He had seen that woman in a picture on Word's desk and in Moordye's hangout. Moordye's had called her his mom who had died when was young.

"I knew there had to be a reason why he didn't turn me in when I was hurt." Kiva said looking at the picture. This got looks from everybody and the dragons.

"I was out in one of the junkyards looking for some part pieces when a earthquake happened causing me to get thrown from Talaes. The next thing I knew I was in The Eye of the Dragon's hangout. I thought that I was in trouble for I didn't change my jacket to a non crew jacket and me being part of the Keepers. But somebody had taken my jacket and hid it in one of the storage unit. Later when someone came in I pretended to be asleep. They kept saying that the others couldn't knew that I was a Keeper. My mind told me that I had to get out of there and fast. When their backs were turned I tried to make my getaway but Moordye and Cain caught me before I got two feet and that was surprising do to the fact that I had a broken ankle and two broken ribs. I was told that nothing was going to happen to me and that when I felt a little better they would sneak me out. Two days later they snuck me out in one of their loads along with Talaes who had some injuries as well. When I asked them why they helped me when they knew what crew I was from all I got from Moordye was maybe I'm not the evil as my father." Kiva explained to the group.

"She right Beau did let Moordye ride him and he did help free me from his father human wraith gear and take care of Lance." Artha said looking at the two crew leaders in witch Stewward's jaw was hanging down to the ground. Artha knew the look on the Keeper's leader it was a overprocted father look and it didn't help that his daughter had said that Moordye helped her.

"So Word was right about the Dragon Booster being friends with the stable brats." A voice that Artha knew to well said coming from the shadows if the hallway.

The group turned to see Cain coming out of the shadow with his dragon Envy. Artha stood in front of Stewward and Kiva. While the dragons blocked Envy from getting near their masters.

"Easy I'm not here to do any thing." Cain told them as he put his block stick down. "If you think Moordye was the only one who had a parent that was a Gold Dragon your wrong." Cain said. He reached in to his pocket and pulled out a ring that was glowing a blackish blue color.

"He telling the truth. That ring belong to Ariesa. She was a Gold Dragon that joined up with the Eye of the Dragon crew along with Zulay to spy on Word." Conner told the twins.

"If that ring is glowing than the others have started to as well." Stewward said. "Each of the Gold Dragons had a ring. When the crew joined up with the other crews the rings stop glowing. I have no doubt that the children of the Gold Dragons will show up soon enough now that the Artha and Kiva have been reunited."

"Wait all this time Cain had been a good guy." The prince said still standing in front of his sister.

"Kinda. His mother wasn't excely the person you could get along with but she was loyal to your parents and crew." A femine voice replayed from the shadows. Stepping out was a woman in her mid forties with white hair and deep green eyes. She was dressed in a gold dragon crew outfit.

Cain gasped at the woman and then fainted. Looking at the woman Artha realize that she looked a lot like Moordye.

"Yep he is Ariesa's son." The white haired woman said grinning a little. She then walked over to Artha and Kiva. She stood in front of the twins and bowed at the waist to show her respect. Then she walked over to Conner and Stewward. Without warning she hit both of them on the side of the head.

"What did you think you were doing?" The woman yelled which made the two crew leader cringe in fear. "I leave them in your hands and what happens! One almost becomes a wraith and the other get captured by my nephew's crew. Both times Moordye had to save them."

By this time Cain had woken up and just stared at the woman. "Zulay." Was all that the Black Dragon said.

"I'm not her. She was my younger sister. I haven't seen you since you were a baby Cain. Of course I really couldn't have much contact with my former crew members being that my dear brother in law was after me." The woman said. She turned to see the blue eyed heirs looking at her questionly. "Forgive my bad manners my name is Deltas leader of the Gold Dragons and your nanny."

TEASER FOR NEXT CHAPTER. THE TWINS MEET THE CHILDERN OF THE GOLD DRAGONS AND LANCE FINDS OUT ABOUT HIS BROTHER. PLUS KIVA FINDS HERSELF GROWING CLOSE TO MOORDYE.