The Penn Crew has encounter the Inner Order crew's leader, Khatah. There's also a trophy that holds many secrets...

Ch. 4: A Big Gray Dragon?

((Michelle's POV))

At the Horn of Libris racing stables, me, Kitt and ours dragons were at the stables to watch the race instead of entering it. We were watching the try outs of a crew known as Inner Order Crew. In case you wonder who's the leader of that crew, it's Khatah. Now, Khatah is well-known racer and the consecutive champion in the Horn of Libris competition. He's also can be close minded and rather selfish when it comes to racing, but he can be 'nice' once in a while.

How do I know that? Well... I'll explained that later.

/So, this is the famous Khatah, huh?/ I thought as I watch Khatah's crew. Khatah was riding on his Blue Draconium Energy-class dragon, Shock-Ra, with his partner, Sarjo. Sarjo drove Shock-Ra, gives Khatah the signal then the leader did a mag jump and a triple flip in air then lands back on Shock-Ra.

"...Okay, I'll admit it. He's good at this." I muttered out loud.

"Yeah, but he still a dork." Kitt spoke as I chuckled at her.

The Leapdra snorts with displease, {I still don't understand why we can't enter it!}

I sigh as I pat on her neck, "Because, Leapdra... this race is for FOUR legged dragons." ((A/N: Let's say it does 'cause I haven't seen a two legged dragon in that race before yet))

Leapdra just humphed as Wyldfyr quietly chuckled at her.

"What did Leapdra say?" Kitt asked.

I turn to Kitt, "She want to know why we can't enter this race and I explained to her."

Then we heard a familiar shrieking near by. We look to the right and saw my brother being mag into air by Beau with Artha on him.

"It looks like Stable boy and your scary brother is entering the competition." said Kitt. Then she had an idea, "Hey! I just thought of something... Why don't YOU enter this race with Stable boy as your partner?"

I quickly look at her with 'are you crazy' look, "Are you crazy!"

"Come on, Michelle! Two you could make a great team in the race. Besides, the professor is not fit for the race and Artha isn't the best racer here." Kitt pointed out.

"True..." I muttered as we jump off of our dragons.

"...It could bring you and the Stable boy together than before." Kitt smirked.

Then I shriek, "KITT!" I blush with full red. "We're JUST friends! Nothing more!"

{Sure you are...} Leapdra playfully rolled her eyes.

Then Wyldfyr tease at Leapdra, {They do seem close like you and Beau are.}

{Yeah... Wait. HEY!} Leapdra growled at the smirking Wyldfyr.

Kitt and I laugh at our dragons as we walk over to the Penn bros and Parmon.

"...We just have to focus!" Artha spoke to Parmon, who's laying the ground with dizziness.

"Instead of panicking." Lance said to Parmon.

"This is NOT the Khatah from your video games, Lance." Parmon gets up. "This is the REAL Khatah."

Then Kitt spoke to Artha, "You wanna race like your vid game, you gonna think like him, Stable boy. Face it, you're not exactly the best dragon racer out there."

Artha and Beau looked like they were insulted.

Then I spoke, "And you probably have better luck with practice dummy than my frighten brother here." I pointed at Parmon as I smirked when Parmon glares at me.

"HEY!" Then Parmon calms down, "...W-Well, she does got a point there."

I get to the point, "Look, Artha, you're really a good mag jumper..." Artha jumps off of Beau as I continue, "And I'm one of the best racer in this city. If you wanna chance winning this race today..." stick my hand out "...be my partner."

Artha look at me, smile then takes my hand as an agreement. I would've blush, but then Beau put his front-right claws on our hands. Then we all laugh at Beau,'cause is also part of team and he acts like a human sometimes, which is cool.

Later, me, Artha and Beau starts to practice the mag jump for Artha. Beau mags Artha in air then Artha did a double flip, then stop in air, trying to balance on mag energy.

"Find the mag energy string and balance on it!" I directed him.

"I-I'm trying!" Artha exclaimed then begins to fall, "I'm falling! I'M CRASHING!" He lands on a tent, very hard. "...I'm bruising..." Ouch! That's gonna hurt...

Then Parmon starts to blah about great Khatah is with his mag jump and all, then unnoticeable to Parmon, Khatah was standing right behind him.

"Uh... Parm?" Artha spoke.

"Yes?" Parmon answered.

"Did you know Khatah is standing right behind you?" Artha points behind Parmon.

Parmon filches a bit, turns around slowly and see Khatah looking down at him.

Parmon chuckles nervously.

"Say hello, brother." I spoke.

"Hello, brother." Parmon repeated as I smacked my head.

Khatah bow a little to us, "Hello, my name is Khatah, but you probably know that. It's so great to meet my fans." He smug at us.

I rolled my eyes as Parmon chuckled with embarrassment.

"Well, good luck. You will need it." Khatah wink at us as he walk back to his crew.

"Oh, brother..." I muttered with annoyance.

Then Kitt spoke to Artha, "Race like him. Just don't be a dork like him!" I snicker at Kitt.

Me, Artha and Beau prepares for the race at the starting line with Khatah, Sanjo and Shock-Ra. Then I notice Moordryd, Cain and Coershun are also in the race. Why are they here? I wonder why...

The race starts and I drove Beau on, right behind Coeshun with Shock-Ra in the lead. We all head towards the racing track of Horn of Libris Temple. There a lot of ways to the trophy at the top, but it takes teamwork to get to it.

Shock-Ra mags Khatah towards the hoops and bars to hit a target. Khatah with through three hoops with no problem. He then hit the target with his Block Stick then door drops down for Shock-Ra to pass and run on another track. It's like maze or something.

Coeshun and Beau runs pass the door when it went back up. Coeshun mags Moordryd towards another target and Moordryd manages to hit a target, without going through any hoops. The door for Moordryd's team went down for Coeshun and went back up when Coeshun pass by. Coeshun was behind Shock-Ra.

It's our turn now! I look back Artha, "The next target is our! Give it all you got, Artha!"

Beau mags Artha towards the three bars that leads to a target. Artha hops on two, but then trips on the third one, falls straight towards the target then...

SLAM!

His head hits the target instead. "Well... that's using your head, hard head." I chuckled.

Beau mags Artha back on him as we all runs on another track when the door went down. We were still far behind the others as we try to keep up.

Then the com-link from Artha's beeps. It's Parmon and he's saying something to Artha right now.

Artha then shouts at me, "There's a Wraith Dragon on the loose, Michelle! ((A/N: Question: How did they know what it's call?)) We have to warn Khatah!"

"You've got it!" I shouted then tells Beau, "Let's try to catch up to Shock-Ra."

{Right!} Beau responded then mags Artha to another target then leads closer to Khatah and his crew.

We were about to warn Khatah until something invisible has ram into Shock-Ra causing the Energy dragon to trip and fall on the track, right ahead of us! Beau try to stop, but crashes into Shock-Ra, but still standing with dizziness.

"Khatah, are you alright?" Artha asked the leader.

Instead of saying 'Yes, I'm okay.', Khatah glares up at Artha, "YOU did this, Artha Penn!"

/What? We were way behind Khatah and he thinks Artha did it? Why that ungrateful-/ My thoughts were interrupt when the crowd cheers for Moordryd.

Moordryd had won the race... by cheating. Khatah then told Artha that he's great champion of Horn of Libris and Artha ruining everything. Grr... That makes my blood boil!

[Few minutes later...]

After the race, me, Artha and rest went over to Khatah and Sanjo.

Artha tries to apologize to Khatah, "I'm sorry, Khatah... I was trying to he-"

"Sorry?" Khatah huffed. "That's all I get?"

I try my best to stay calm, "Khatah, cool it! It's just a trophy! You can win it back next year."

Khatah sighs with frustrate, "It is NOT just a trophy! I have to get back... I am the great Khatah! It is my responsibility!"

"Responsibility? What are you talking about?" Artha pondered.

Khatah just scoffs at Artha, "You would not understand... You're just a kid! What do you know about being a hero?" and he started to walks away...

"STOP RIGHT THERE, KHATAH!" I yelled with furious as Khatah and his crew member, Sarjo, stopped.

"Uh oh! S-She has become the Leaping Mad Girl again..." Parmon whimpered in fear as Lance hid behind him.

Parmon and Lance has the right to scare. When I get mad... it's very scary.

I walk over to Khatah with anger, "If anyone doesn't know anything about being a hero... it's YOU, Khatah!" I got closer to Khatah's face. "You can't blame Artha for this... stupid race! It's not his fault you lost the race! ...It's your annoying ego!"

Khatah was about to speak, but I cut him off, "And DON'T you dare talk when I'M talking! ...Now, you listen very carefully... You maybe this so call great champion and all, but you know NOTHING about being a hero! Artha will probably be a bigger hero than you! ...It's no wonder she left you after you got all the glory... You care no one, but yourself!"

Khatah just stood in shock. No one, and I mean no one, has ever stood up him like that before.

Khatah just stutters, softly, "...You know nothing about me..." then walks away with Sarjo.

/...I know 'cause SHE told me about you.../ I thought to myself. Then I felt a hand on my shoulder...

"Are you okay?" It was Artha.

I sigh with irritate, "I'm fine..." as I watch Khatah walk away from us. "Just...fine."

Later that even at the Penn stables...

Me and my friends were discussing about Khatah's behavior and why he is so obsessive to that trophy back.

"You heard what he said... 'Get the trophy back' a-and 'responsible' He's obsessive with the horn..." said Kitt. Then she realize something and gasps. "I think Khatah is going to go after Moordryd!"

Artha stands up, "There must be more to it that Moordryd and Cain went through all that trouble to cheat and get it."

Then my brother spoke, "The Inner Order crew versus the Dragon Eyes crew, that will be a terrible street war... Maybe that's Word's plan!"

Kitt stands, spoke to Artha, "You have to do your Dragon Booster thing so we can go after 'em."

"We?"

"Time out!" Artha spoke. "You and Michelle are not part of the team."

Michelle quickly stood up, glaring at Artha, "What did you just say?"

"Uh... N-No offense, Michelle!" Artha nervously stuttered. "It's just that-"

"Look, Artha Penn! I know we're girls and all, the hero thing is very dangerous, however me and Kitt been through worst. Besides, you'll need more team members for this job." I pointed while Kitt smiled with agreement.

"Uh... Lil' sis, why don't we just stay here and call Dragon Security?"

I sighs at my brother, "Because, for one thing, Dragon Security doesn't go down to Squire's End!"

"Besides, they don't know where Moordryd and the Dragon Eyes crew place is." Kitt pointed pout. "Do any of you?"

Artha, Parmon and Lance got quiet, knowing that me and Kitt are right. Without no lead to know where the Dragon Eyes crew are, they'll need our help.

Few hours later in Down City, Squire's End...

Me and my friends were looking out from the top of a tall building towards Moordryd's place with our dragons ((A/N: Now in the show, Lance's dragon wasn't in this episode. I wonder why the creators didn't add Fracshun in it?)) As we look over to the Dragon Eyes crew location, we spotted Khatah and Sarjo, quietly sneaking towards a secret entrance hole. They then use their acrobat skills to get inside and manages land on the ledge of the broken wall. They quietly sneak inside...

/...That just gave me a idea.../ I thought to myself then I look at Artha, telling him that we'll go there and use the same move that Khatah and Sarjo just did. Parmon, Lance, Kitt and the dragons stay behind while me and Artha went down towards the secret entrance.

As soon as we got there, we prepare to use the acrobat moves. After Artha finish stretching we've got start to the move like the Inner Order crew. However, I manages to land on the ledge while Artha miss the ledge and falls into a trash can.

"Nice landings...!" I quietly snickered down at him from the ledge.

"Gee... Th-Thanks!" Artha groaned while still inside the trash can.

Few minutes later after I got Artha out of the trash, we were on a huge statue of Moordryd's head when the alarm goes off. I guess Khatah and Sarjo got caught by Moordryd and his crew. We peer over to see what's happening, see many of the Dragon Eyes crew running around, looking for others who might be with the Inner Order crew.

I look over to Artha, whispering, "Well... what do we do now, Dragon Booster?" while smiling at him as we then look back the scene.

We've duck down before the search light land on us. Artha then found a way inside the statue and we jump inside before another search light scan us. We look outside from the statue through the eyes of it. We spotted Moordryd down below, talking to the small screen of his dad, Word Paynn...

It seem they were talking about the trophy, Horn of Libris. They also say something a gray bone dragon and starting a war... After the chat, Moordryd turn the screen and went off as Artha over to where I am.

"Drac! This Dragon Booster thing is more then I thought..." I spoke.

Artha nods at me, "You have no idea..."

An hour later, we've finally found where the Dragon Eyes crew held Khatah and Sarjo at from the ceiling of it.

Artha opens the hatch and calls out to the leader of the Inner Order crew, "Psst! Up here!"

Khatah see us and was not to please to see us, "Oh, great!"

Artha sighs with insults, "Great? I came here to help you!"

"I don't need a kid to help me! I am Khatah!"

/Okay! Now, this guy is really beginning scrape my scales!/ I angrily thought to myself.

Then Artha tries explains what's happening so far, "You have no idea what you're mix up into, Khatah! The Horn of Libris is more than just a trophy... We don't know all the details, but we heard from Moordryd saying that if the horn is use, some kinda gray dragon named Libris will show up."

"And start a Dragon-Human War!" I spoke. "Is that important enough for ya?"

Khatah then sighs, "So, now you know why I must get the trophy back, why my crew is counting on me."

"We are here together!" said Artha.

"Yeah... Heroes don't work alone!" I smiled as Artha reach out for Khatah.

Khatah look down for the moment, knowing that what we said is true. He then looks up at us with a smile and grabs Artha's hand as sign for alliances.

Later on, Artha went with Khatah while I took Sarjo back to where our friends are. The alarm went off again. but I manages to get Sarjo to where the secret is and saw my brother, Lance, Kitt and the dragons. Except I didn't see Beau... I guess he must've went over the wall to help Artha. Anyway, I told the others to help Sarjo so I can go back to Artha. The others decides to come along as well. ((A/N: I just realize something... Whatever happened to Sarjo?))

Minutes later, me and the rest were inside the place. But then we suddenly hear a horrible screeching, roaring sound!

"What that sound? It's horrible!" Kitt cried.

Then we heard a huge distance roar near by...

"I am thinking that sound is worst!" Parmon whimpered and he has the right to whimper... Something big is heading this way.

Suddenly, we feel the ground shake then hears a roar of something and see a big gray dragon! The gray bone dragon, known as Libris, steps over the wall to where Lance is at.

I drove Leapdra towards Lance, quickly and grabs Lance away from the dragon before he steps on Lance.

I put Lance in a safe to hid from danger, "Stay here!" and saw Libris chasing Parmon and Cyrano.

Cyrano tries to run away from the big dragon with Parmon on his back, but he wasn't fast enough. Luckily, Kitt drove Wyldfyr towards Libris and impacts on the gray dragon's legs to get his attention on them.

Libris glares at Kitt and Wyldfyr starts to chase after them. His yellowish green eyes suddenly changes color to red as he chase after Kitt and Wyldfyr. I drove Leapdra towards Libris and quickly went pass between them to get Libris attention. Libris stop chasing Kitt and her dragon, glares at me and Leapdra for a second then chase after us. We try to lose Libris from the huge hallway, but he was right on our tail. I look back at the big dragon and notices his eyes had change again, but his left eye was light purple while the other eye is light turquoise. How's that possible?

All of the sudden, Libris mag energy were the color light purple and light turquoise and mags me off of Leapdra.

{Michelle!} Leapdra cried then gets knock away from Libris as I hit the ground.

I shake the pain from my head then notices that Libris' head is right near me!

"Libris! Stay away from her!" Was that Parmon? I look over and saw my older brother holding his Blocking Staff while shaking in fear, trying to be brave.

Libris turns to Parmon, glares down at him as his eyes change color to green.

"Parmon! Drop your weapon and power your gear!" I look towards the who call out to my brother. It was Artha, but as the Dragon Booster with Beau. "Libris is using your draconium energy against you! If you'll fight, he'll fight! That's why the Bone Dragons are so dangerous. He's using your power against you!"

"A-Are you sure?" Parmon stuttered as Libris got closer to him.

"Trust me!"

Parmon nervously and slowly moves his arms, "N-Nice dragon!" and let's go his Blocking Staff. "N-Nothing up my sleeves."

Libris' eyes suddenly turns back to his original eye color, but then hears and notices Khatah is fighting against Moordryd. This cause Libris to feel irritate and walks towards them.

Dragon Booster shouts out to them, "Khatah! Moordryd! Stop fighting!"

They didn't him, but they notices a big gray dragon is glaring at them. Khatah and Moordryd turn their Blocking Staffs towards Libris.

"Forget the Horn of Libris, Khatah! This isn't about you and the horn! It's about us, Dragon City and whole world! We need your help right now!" Khatah hesitant to let go of his staff. "Stop fighting!" Khatah let's go then looks at Moordryd to see if he's doing the same. Moordryd look like he was, but when Khatah look back Libris, Moordryd was about to hit the leader of Inner Order crew, but that made Libris growl and turns towards Moordryd.

Libris' eyes change into the color black and snarls down at Moordryd. Moordryd shook in fear then quickly drops his staff.

Beau then roars at Libris, {LIBRIS!}

Libris looks back Beau and the Dragon Booster and steps towards them, thinking that they will fight him. {So, you dare challenge me!} he roared.

"I won't fight you!" said Dragon Booster.

{LIES! You humans always fight!} Libris angrily roared.

Beau suddenly has an idea then release his gold draconium into the air then it breaks into six draconiums and each one surge into Kitt, Lance, Parmon, me, Dragon Booster and Moordryd. Then our draconium in our body glows...

Blue for Lance...

Red for Kitt...

Green for Parmon...

Black for Moordryd...

Gold for Dragon Booster...

Mixture of Light Purple and Light Turquoise for me...

Our draconiums energies left our bodies and went back into Beau. Beau blasts out the draconiums onto Libris as he and the gray bone dragon glows each colors. Blue to Red to Green to Black to Gold to Light Purple and Light Turquoise and finally to plain bright light. The draconiums fades away.

Libris pants with exhaust then leans down at Beau's level... ((A/N: Now, I have no idea what they say to each other. So, I'll just say they're talking in ancient language))

Libris and Beau talk to each other for the moment, smiling each other then Libris bows down to Beau and runs off to where no one knows where.

Khatah manages to find the Horn of Libris. Kitt, Parmon, Lance and I walks over to him to see is he's okay. Khatah ask where the Dragon Booster went, but we've act like we don't know where he went until Artha and Beau walk in. Artha notices Khatah found the Horn of Libris and suggest that we should leave the trophy to the Dragon City Security. Artha even acts like he misses the Dragon Booster. Khatah then apologize to Arath for his actions earlier and said heroes needs other heroes to succeed.

We've lay each hands on each other and Beau lays one of his front claws on our hand which cause us fall on each other to the ground. However, we laugh at Beau and each other...

Sparklie-the-Tiger/Me: Whew! That's done...