I hand the card over to Thalia and she places it in the slot. As the elevator begins to move, Thalia takes the card back out and hands it back to me to place inside the jacket pocket once again. There is a tiny bell sound and the doors begin to open slowly showing a room full of computers with six people sitting behind the computer screens. The far side wall there is fire blasting upon it, a dragon is captured inside! This dragon looks different than the ones that were circling over the town not too long ago, it is as the body is red and the scales are a silver iridescence. The red plays hide and seek beneath the silver scales as the dragon moves around shooting fire at its container trying to release itself. He seems to calm and stare right toward us at the elevator; the men behind the computers grow elated when the dragon ceases the fire. The dragon begins breathing fire again and the men continue to focus hard typing away at their computers.
Eva walks around the computers and the people working on them do not even take notice of her, they are too busy working on their computers. She rubs her hands together and then thrusts them to the barrier that contains the dragon and it shatters around it, letting the dragon free from what kept it bound. Thalia hides back into the elevator as the dragon breathes fire over Eva incinerating the people working on the computers. I race into the fire and raise my arms around it, absorbing as much of the heat as I can possibly store within myself to use later.
“There are more in here,” says the dragon in a very smoky, masculine voice. “I’ll show you to them.”
The dragon’s body begins to morph and shrink from the tremendous size of a creature it was to a tan man with long dark hair who can’t be more than half a foot taller than I am. The scales become a white tunic to cover his body, his well-toned arms remaining bare as he walks over to another elevator in the room. Eva, Thalia, and I follow him into the elevator and as the door shuts slowly behind us. The dragon man pushes a button in the elevator and we are carried carefully downward to another floor.
As the door opens, we can see more dragons in cages, the cages are different though as they have bars containing the dragons inside of them. The dragons are all wearing metallic circlets around their heads. There are three men in this room walking around carrying riding gear; reins, saddles, saddle blankets. These people must ride on the dragons.
“Weak-willed,” the dragon man snarls as he swiftly approaches the nearest cage and reaches through the bars.
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