Dragon Charmers #1

Mountains of Fire

Logan lives in Shanoria – the Kingdom of dragons and is apprenticed to an elderly absent-minded wizard called Zared. Logan appears to have little talent for wizardry, as most of his spells imply explode leaving a terrible mess.
 

Logan’s best friend is Alyxa – a young girl who has a rare ability as a dragon charmer. She can soothe and entrance dragons, which enables them to be commanded by humans. The dragons of Shanoria are mostly used for transport and for racing.

The dragons farmed in the kingdom come in three colours – yellow, green, and the highly prized blue. The charm slowly wears off and they have to be re-charmed to make them compliant. Not all dragons in Shanoria can be tamed, and the feared red dragons who live in the Mountains of Fire stage regular raids and carry off young boys – never to be seen again.

No rescue attempt has ever been mounted until a young prince is carried off by a large red in front of Logan, Alyxa, the king and his arrogant son, Prince Myles. the king demands that Zared rescue his young son by casting a spell. Zared seems to have lost all grip on reality and it is now up to Logan to try to cast a ‘seeing spell ’ so they can find where the young prince has been taken.

They are short of one ingredient for the spell – a white dragon ’s heart. In a brief lucid moment,Zared tells Logan, Myles and Alyxa they must locate his old friend,a white dragon called Silverhorn. The spell is completed and the prince’s whereabouts is traced to the red dragon-controlled city of Radolk falls.

Zared (reunited with Silverhorn and restored to normality), Logan, Prince Myles and Alyxa race to Radolk Falls before the Red ’s evil leader uses the kidnapped prince as a final ingredient to cause a volcanic upheaval which will fill the world with flames and rid it of all humans. In an action-packed finale,Logan finds that he is the son of the king of Radolk Falls and was the human that the Reds have been seeking all along. Logan saves the day, wins the respect of a humbled Prince Myles, and with Alyxa returns to the burning Radolk Falls to try to rebuild the shattered city for his people now it is free of the fearsome red dragons.