Loudly crashing doors shut behind the guests in the council room. Germ looked around intently scanning everything inside the enormous room. Nine giant crystaline thrones were placed all around the room in a pattern. Each of the thrones was a different color of rock and crystals. Zenoxial sat in the largest throne which was the only one that was clear crystal and reflected light from the others.
The female that opened the door took a seat in a pure white throne. Other figures in different robes sat amongst the other thrones. The only one that was empty was a throne as black as obsidian. Vargfreid bowed to the guests and slowly made his way to the empty throne. " All will be explained honored guests". He said with a smile and a sly wink.
The giant marble floor had the same depiction of the female from the earlier door except she sat against one of the four headed dragon crosses. Banners also hung high around the room filled with a rich history in pictures featuring the dragons. The banners in the council room mainly focused on the pure white dragon and assembled a plethora of different stories in the pictures.
Each of the guests took in the room with amazement and a bit of shock. This was after all something no one could have even imagined it's existence with the rare exception of Totek. More individuals in robes came in through a side entrance carrying chairs for the assembled group. Slowly each person who looked quite funny sitting in the giant thrones shifted into their true forms , revealing nine very different dragons.
Germ just mouthed "wow" and stayed in a state of surprise a few moments until Henry jokingly tapped Germ's chin up. The dragon acolytes all left the council chambers after their duties were complete. Zenoxial who was the biggest of the nine had a beautiful deep brown and green scaled form. What would seem like spikes were instead bits of tree saplings and vibrant moss that grew along his body.
" Honored and blessed guests in our home you are welcome to stay or visit for as long as you like" Zenoxial bellowed from his now much smaller looking throne. " You are involved in everything now as much as we are whether any of us like it or not".
" Involved in what" Germ spoke up and asked.
Zenoxial cracked his giant back and the sound echoed through the room. " The dawn of a new era. Things will be changing now that the seer has been found. A wealth of history can be seen in our records and when the seer shows up it is always a tumultuous time for better or worse". He looked directly at Valeraxa. " What is this urgent news you have for us"?
Valeraxa stood up and moved away from the other guests and began shifting herself to reveal her own fiery form. " The blasphemer is making obedient clones somehow of both dragon and man" she exclaimed loudly in a puff of smoke. All of the dragons now looked as shocked as the guests did when they first saw the room.
A big stout and portly black and purplish dragon that sat in a blue throne growled " That is madness ! I'm not sure how that would be possible, but if so we must find a way to end this now".
The other dragons all nodded and seemed to bellow in approval of the statement. Another dragon that sat in a bright red crystaline throne shot a stream of fire into the air.
" They would have all been dead long ago if things were that easy" the dragon that had very similar black and red looks to Valeraxa spoke up. He seemed to almost be what a dragon made out of lava would look like. Red fiery vein like arcs and scales along a muscular blackened form. " They are many and we are so few now".
The pure white dragon that originally opened the door joined in now " The seer has made it. Also we have the Olympians help as well as the slayers. We have a good chance now of finally killing the false queen" Her form almost gleamed itself and she had a visible light blue aura that surrounded her entire body that emanated from her eyes.
Zenoxial roared which shook the entire room. " Yes. It will be so. " Than he looked at the guests " Now to clear some things up so you can understand better".
The lava like dragon snarled " The slayers are but babies and the Olympians have their own machinations always".
A smaller dragon that was bright green and had crackling green lightning around it finally spoke " Kafilagaxis " eyeing the fire dragon intensly " They will be trained quickly and the Olympians have as much to gain as we do from stopping them. We are out of time" the red dragon finally seemed to calm down as much as his kind could at any rate. He knew they were all out of time now.
Zenoxial sighed " Now as I was saying . Before all of this we were not so fractured. Sure there were some rebellious members of our kind, but who doesn't have them amongst their own species" he went on " We all followed a great king whom the humans had dubbed Python. We will keep it at that name because names are very powerful in magical circles especially with dragons".
The group chose to stay quiet and listen to this old and powerful being without chiming in. " This king managed to gather the majority of us and even made a pact with humans and other kinds. You see dragons had a bad reputation because of certain ones that abused their power. Well this king formed a giant world kingdom of dragons. We were to mainly stay in our human forms as to not cause problems and be harmonious with the other creatures in the world. At least when we were around others . We have our dens to be fully free. Besides that we can hide in various ways. Well anyway , Lorelei was his most ardent supporter and most feared champion. They were even lovers for a time , but she was always dark and craved power over everything else. Her greed and lust for power became ever consuming."
The other dragons seemed to be saddened as the story went on. " During a fierce battle with a group of rebellious power hungry evil dragons she snapped and killed him while he was injured. She joined the rebels side and gained more to her cause as many dragons are inherently greedy and power hungry by nature. Not all of us , but there are many that are. Her traitorous cowardly actions were seen as a true champion of our kind by many unfortunately. She chose to keep the pact to a degree as it was easier to carry out any plans she had. Now her plans are fully seen and they are worse than anything we could have even thought or even considered for that matter".
Moving now towards the guests he looked at Germ and Henry in particular." You both have immense power that you don't understand yet. We will train you how to use them even to our possible detriment because we are all in a most dire circumstance. By birthright you are both Slayers. Or perhaps divine calling. That part I'm not exactly positive about. Slayers come about at times of great need and called to help heal mother Gaia. "
Germ's mind was rolling back and forth with all this crazy information. "I will help where I can. I have seen enough to know this isn't just some dream and the world is in trouble". Henry nodded " If nothing else it's one hell of a story I won't actually get to tell" he chuckled to himself.
Germ looked right at Vargfreid " If you knew where I was all the time why didn't you help the others from my horrible family" remembering what the dragon had said before the double doors even opened.