The Broken Scale (The Dragon Riders of Arvain) Read Online Free

east. It is there they created Celestial City. It was a few more years before they started to mine into the ground. It was originally for shelter against the constant threat of the dragons, but while they were digging, they started to discover underground caverns filled with gold, silver, and copper. The city began to flourish as they started digging deeper and deeper, their greed leading them on.” Hayden was struggling not to ask questions after every sentence. He’d heard the history of Arvain before, but never in such detail about the dragons.
    “ They found the caverns that housed the metallic eggs while digging late one night. They were tired and thought they had just found large deposits of the minerals they so desperately wanted. As they were counting their find, one of the men touched a copper egg and it hatched for him. There were two others with him that were counting, so each one touched a different color egg, one silver and one gold. They then counted the remaining eggs, determining that they had found two hundred copper eggs, twenty silver eggs and only two golden eggs, and that is what we base our money system off of: ten copper pieces equal a silver and ten silver pieces equal a gold.”
                  “When word came out that they had found the eggs, the town’s people lined up to get theirs, and it wasn’t long until they were almost gone. They kept one gold and just a few of the silvers and coppers hidden away from the people.
    “ They tried to keep them hidden in the caves until they were big enough to fly, but there were so many of them it was impossible. Soon, the other groups noticed the metallic dragons as they flew over, but did not give them thought because they were small and of no concern, especially when they had fully grown dragons to fight. That was their fatal mistake. The metallic dragons grew much faster and bigger than the other dragons, so it didn’t take long for them to reach a size big enough to defend themselves. It was said that some of the bigger metallic dragons could carry a rider as early as eight months after it hatched.” Hayden remembered hearing about how dragons were not strong enough to carry human riders until they were a year old.
                  “One day, two red dragons ambushed a white dragon not far from the city - by this time the iron walls were beginning to go up, and before the reds could ground the white, a silver and three coppers swarmed in and killed the two reds. The white did not know they were trying to help, so it attacked them. The silver did the only thing it could, and killed the white. The first copper, silver and gold riders met that night to decide what needed to be done with the other races of dragons. They decided the only choice they had was to build and army out of the metallic dragons and attack each of the dragon races one at a time.”
                  “They started with the whites. It took them a few months to get ready for the attack and during that time they killed every dragon that got near the city. They flew out together as one giant unit- the whites never stood a chance. The fight did not last long, as only five whites made it to the air and died in the battle. By the time any more could even attempt to get off the ground, they knew that defeat was imminent. Close to a hundred fifty dragons the same size as theirs came thundering at them in groups of ten. The barbarians (now called the “Frost Fangs” by the metallic riders) were forced to serve them. The leaders of the metallics, the first three that found the eggs, took some of the white riders and their army to the elves. The elves already had dragons in the air to scout for the next attacks from the pirates, when the massive metallic army flew over the horizon. All the green dragons came together in a giant clearing and they realized victory was not an option, so they surrendered without bloodshed.” Fendrel spoke without emotion