Chapter 2: The Dragon Council
Victoria heard voices. She opened her eyes. She was laying on the floor. Rhoda, Serena, and Meroko were huddled around her.
"Victoria are you okay?" Meroko asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine," she replied sitting up and rubbing her head. "Where are we?"
"Silence!" said a deep voice.
They all looked up. There, starring at them, were 10 dragons. They recognized one to be the one who attacked them. The others they didn't recognize.
The one who spoke was a golden dragon with soft orange eyes. The one to his right was a red dragon with golden eyes. The one next to him was the black dragon. Then to the golden dragon's left was a green dragon with lightning yellow eyes. The one next to him was a sky blue dragon with silver eyes.
Then there was diamond white dragon with red eyes. Then a moon silver dragoness with dark purple eyes. There was also an orange copper dragon with silver eyes. Then there is a black and bronze dragon with dark red eyes. Then there is a blue and brass dragon with amethyst purple eyes.
Victoria suddenly realized something.
"Where are our dragons?" she demanded.
"Victoria don't," Serena whispered.
"Silence!" the golden dragon shouted again.
"I won't be silent until I know where our dragons are!" Victoria shouted back.
The dragon and Victoria stared at each other for a while. Everyone was watching intently. Tension hung in the air around them. Then the dragon sighed and addressed the red dragon to his right.
"Shidoosha, why don't you tell them," he said.
Shidoosha nodded. Then face the four girls.
"Your dragons are safe they are under the care of my daughter, Helios's daughter, Botuki's daughter, and Gyem's daughter," he told them.
As he spoke he gestured to the diamond white dragon (Helios), the black and bronze dragon (Botuki), and the blue and brass dragon (Gyem).
Victoria let out a sigh of relief. They were safe.
"Why have you come here and what are your names?" the golden dragon demanded.
Victoria was the one who spoke up.
"My name is Victoria and these are me friends: Meroko, Rhoda, and Serena. We are here because we love dragons and we have wanted to come here all our lives," she said.
The golden dragon closed his eyes, going over Victoria's little speech. Then he let out a sigh and opened his eyes.
"Well, since you introduced your self so formally and gave an answer," he said, "I'll introduce everyone else here."
"I am Lao Tang. This is Shidoosha, Lang Danzi, Helios, Kero, Da Lu, Bardon, Yue, Gyem, and Botuki. And we are the Dragon Council. We are the leaders of the 10 Dragon Clans of Ryuu Country. I am the leader of the council."
Victoria stood and bowed. When she straitened, she spoke once again.
"Can I ask you something?" she asked.
"What is it?" Lao Tang asked, a little softer this time.
"Could we stay here with you and the dragons?" she asked.
Everyone looked at her. Even Serena, Meroko, and Rhoda looked at her. Their eyes are wide in surprise.
"Victoria! What are you doing?" Meroko asked her, standing up.
"You can't just invite us here!" Rhoda said, also standing up next to Victoria.
"We will consider it," Lao Tang said.
They all turned and looked at him in surprise. Everyone was all looking at him in surprise except for Victoria.
"But Lao Tang!" Long Danzi protested. "You said that we wouldn't let anymore humans into the clans!"
"We're not humans, we're wizards," Victoria said.
Lao Tang nodded to Victoria.
"Long Danzi, the boys aren't humans either. We won't let humans in, but wizards are another matter," Lao Tang said.
Victoria smiled and bowed again.
"Thank you," she said.
"In the mean time, Shidoosha, call your wife and have her take these wizards to their dragons."
"Yes sir."
"You were very polite weren't you?" asked Selene, Shidoosha's wife.
"Yes, but only towards the end," Victoria told her.
Selene was taking Victoria, Serena, Rhoda, and Meroko to their dragons. All the dragons were staring at them as they walked by. They walked into a cave. As they walked Selene talked to them.
"You're lucky," she said. "Not many people, or dragons for that matter, can get past the council. Lao Tang isn't mean or anything; he actually has a very kind heart."
They got to the end of the tunnel and saw their dragonesses laughing and talking to four other dragonesses. Aqua, Shadow Wing, Gilda, and Akina looked up, saw the girl, and ran to them.
The girls ran and hugged their dragons around their necks.
"Well, its good that you can still move," Selene said walking over to them. "I don't think that you four have met my daughter and her friends. This is Ruby, Diamond, Buronzu, and Shichuu.
She gestured to the four dragonesses. Ruby in a red dragon with yellow lining her belly and has soft lightning yellow eyes. Her wings are red and, going down, fade into blue.
Diamond is a purl white dragoness with an icy blue underneath and eyes are a soft violet.
Shichuu is a brass dragoness with purple stripes and midnight blue eyes. Her wings are brass but, going out, fade into purple.
"Hello," Diamond said. "Your dragons have told us all about you four."
"Hey, I have a question," Victoria said.
"What is it?" Buronzu replied.
"Well, Lao Tang said that there were boys here," Victoria explained. "Can we see them?"
"Sure, come on," Shichuu answered.
With that they all left the cave.