They slowed as they neared the narrow patchwork walkway. "Whoa." Aelita cautiously walked to the edge and looked down. The only thing under the walkway was air and distant tracks miles beneath it.
"Whoa is right. There isn't any ground under this thing." Ulrich walked up to it.
"All right everybody, walk slowly and carefully. We don't know if we devirtualize here or not and personally, I'd rather not have any of us find out the hard way." The others nodded and followed him across the walkway.
"Now what? It's a dead end." Odd looked at it and then looked at his hands.
"I got an idea." He extended his claws and ran up the brick wall. He got to the top and came to rest on a ledge.
"What about the rest of us?" Odd looked around before picking a cable up off of the ground. He slowly lowered it and held it as the others climbed up. From their position, they could see a giant statue that overlooked a patchwork stage with big speakers. Neon lights covered almost everything that they could see. The statue was a bust of a man with long hair and a unibrow. There were stage lights that seemed to act like the lights in prison guard towers, watching for intruders and escapees. And in the middle of everything was a boy, no more than sixteen, with long white hair, sitting atop a four-legged black dragon. The boy was holding what looked like a horn up to his mouth. Nearby, stood a man in gold armor atop a four-legged black and gold dragon with frills on its legs, tail, and throat. The man seemed to be talking but they could not hear him. Suddenly, the white haired boy blew the horn, creating a horrible screeching sound that echoed throughout the building and seemed to rattle their bones.
"Oh, man, what was that?" Odd started to stand but lost his balance as the ground began shaking. The warriors turned to see a giant grey dragon made of bones. Its bold green eyes glared at them. The group barely had time to jump off of the ledge before it smashed the wall and raced into the building. A girl on a two-legged red dragon raced past them, drawing the attention of the giant four-legged dragon. Its eyes changed from green to red as it shot an energy burst at the girl. It threw her from her dragon and stood over her. "Oh, man, we gotta help her!"
"That's the smartest thing you've said today, Odd." Ulrich drew his swords and raced towards the dragon. He struck its leg but he didn't even leave a mark. It shot an energy burst at him, narrowly missing.
"Laser arrow!" Odd shot at it but it simply shot the arrow down. Umi threw her fan at it but it was deflected as well.
"What's going on? Why aren't our attacks working?" The dragon started to attack but stopped as the man on the gold dragon stepped between them and the grey dragon.
"Libris, stop! I won't fight you!" A light went from the dragon to four other people. Beams made of the colors of red, green, blue, and black came back to the dragon who then shot them into the giant dragon, causing both of them to change colors in turn. After they changed colors six times, Libris bowed to the smaller gold dragon and his rider. Libris then ran and jumped over a nearby wall. The gold dragon then turned to face the defeated warriors. "Who are you guys? And where did you learn those attacks?"
"I'm Aelita, that's Odd, Ulrich, and Yumi. And it's hard to explain."
"Get on Beau's back, I'll take you somewhere safe." The dragon glowed gold and pulled them onto it.
"Hey, wait! Why should we trust you?"
"Because I'm the Dragon Booster."
"The what?"
"You don't know who the Dragon Booster is?"
"We're not even sure where we are."
"Oh man." He motioned to the people standing nearby. "Come on guys." The teenage boy standing by a large green dragon handed the horn to a man in blue and jumped onto his dragon. He then followed the man who called himself the Dragon Booster out of the building, followed by a boy on a four-legged blue dragon and the girl on the red dragon.