The Spire.

[Frisk E. Coyote]

Nera squinted a little as her eyes readjusted to the light, before she blazed toward the elders, landing before them. She smacked one of the unconscious ones a few times, but it was no use, he was out cold. Snarling, she examined the half-frozen elders quickly. "Ice..." She murmured as plumes of flame swirled around them, defrosting them.

"DOROTHY!?" She called out over the dragons, scanning the area quickly for Mar's sister. When no one came up, she started linking things together. "Elders- who did this!?" She said, trembling in rage. "Who abducted the Aeon Dragon!?" She asked, already having an idea of who the villain was, but needed assurance.

[DragonMasterX]

Mar forgot about everything else when hearing Dorothy's name, remembering how they had lost sight of her in the first place. He ran upstairs to follow Nera since he wasn't used to flying in his normal form yet, and when catching up he nearly roasted the other dragons that were being softly defrosted by F'Nerah's plumes of fire, although besides a very angry growl, he didn't do anything brute-ish as one would expect. However, he did pull one of the Elders up by his collar with both claws, starting to shake him while madly growling at him, "Tell me who did this! Is Dot anywhere near here?! Dammit, talk!"

"Cough, we..." The old guy tried speaking up, almost done with loosing his numbness, but now getting dizzy due to Mar's lack of consideration for his quick recovery.

"TALK I SAID!" The blue dragon roared.

"...We don't know! Th-the aeon, cough... Uzumaki... he vanished... and then... the lights went out..."

"What...?" Mar's pupils bloated slightly as he thought about what he had just heard, "THE HELL?!" he fumed angrily, his slitted pupils thinning out again, "That guy knocked you out and froze you over... Is that it?!" he shouted again, mindlessly shaking the poor, older dragon.

[Shadowknight]

"KITT! Get over here!" Katt shouted, sensing that something was going wrong she wanted to make sure her sister was safe first and foremost.

"What? What's going on?" Kitt asked, a bit nervous from everyone's actions but unsure of what was happening.

"Mar what the hell's happening?" Shadow asked, jumping up onto the stage, "Something's wrong isn't it?"

[Frisk E. Coyote]

"Martin, that's enough! Taking it out on someone won't get us any closer to Dot!" F'Nerah yelled over the crowd. "EVERYONE, Divide into groups of six! Half of you, scour the island for the Aeon dragon! The other half, protect those who can't fight!" She commanded, and flew over to Mar and the rest. "Let us find Dorothy ourselves. Last we saw her, she was in the company of Ryoji Zhang, charming fellow, you all met him did you not? I have reason to suspect that he is behind this."

[Erethzium]

"Nera," Vook started as she flew over towards the others, trying to keep her calm. "I can surround this entire island in a magical shield, allowing nothing to exit, and nothing to enter, but it will take a little while. Would it be better to do that, or help search?"

[Shadowknight]

"What!?" Cyan roared a bit over the crowd, "How can you be so quick to judge another dragon? We never had a problem until we brought outsiders here, you can't think that's a coincidence. I'd say it's one of them, or probably all, that're behind this." she glared over at Katt and Kitt, the closest two, growling slightly.

"Wh, we didn't do anything." Kitt insisted, pouting slightly from being yelled at.

[Erethzium]

"I've known these two for quite some time, they wouldn't do something like this! And besides, they've been here the whole time! How could they have done anything?" Ereth growled back, stepping in front of the two felines, glaring back at Cyan. "What motive would a couple of sexy kittens have, anyways? I never thought a dragon could have such prejudice." he added, crossing his arms over his chest.

[Shadowknight]

"Prejudice? It's obvious, and you'd see it too if you weren't distracted by that feline's chest." Cyan growled.

"What's distracting about my chest? Is there something on my shirt?" Kitt asked, looking down at her shirt.

[DragonMasterX]

"That's... right..." Mar said, responding only to F'Nerah upon getting over his daze of anger, dropping the half-stiff elder to the floor. The large dragon jumped down the stage, "Right! We gotta chase after Dot's boyfriend! He'll tell us where he saw her last!" he said, preparing to dash off, but stopped, "Uhm... Where's that guy, though?" he said, losing all air of seriousness around him as he stood up, pondering while almost cutely putting a finger to his chin and staring off blankly.

"What is going on here?!" A deep, manly voice echoed in the room as a pair of other dragons came rushing in. These two were anthros such as Cyan and Mar, but both were dressed in what seemed to be similar pieces of armor of the likes F'Nerah donned.

Mar carefully looked over the two newcomers "Who are these guys?"

"Julian Aesmith." The armored dragon contested, "My partner and I were appointed to guarding the entrance of the cave of the ceremony to make sure outsiders would not come in."

"Yo." The blue dragon waved a claw, pointing over to his non-dragon friends.

"Those are your friends, aren't they?" Julian rethorically asked.

"Oh, good point." Mar replied, "Bet the elders had told you before we came in. But something happened here, and we haven't found the culprit yet."

"It's possible they came from outside, then..." Julian pondered.

"You guys were the ones picking the short straw when they were appointing guards, weren't you?" Mar sighed in disbelief with a sarcastic tone.

"Ill joking aside, we heard a rather strange noise from outside, and so we decided to come and check... What happened to the elders?"

"Bad stuff. Real bad. But I think they'll be okay." Mar said, turning to look over to the knocked out elders, then his slow mind clicked as he remembered what was they had to do "What's more important, where can we find,"

The companion of the grey-scaled dragon, a shorter, pinkish scaled female with light-blue long hair bounced in-between Cyan and Katt, "Eeee!" the cheerful armored girl squealed, raising an arm high as if calling for attention, her rather ample bust bouncing within its confines. "C'mon guuuuuys! Don't argue like that! Juli and I let you guys pass 'cause the old bags said it was okay, so nobody who was in here is at fault! Teehee. Now now, Cyan-chan! Tell Lizzy what's wrong!" she giggled, waving a paw towards Cyan. "You don't look cute when you frown like that!"

Losing sight of his goal again, and starting to chuckle, Mar continued but with another sentence "Uhm... did she just call you Jully?" he asked, trying to hold his laughter in.

Julian put a claw to his face, his short black hair ruffling slightly. "We don't have time for this." He said, ignoring Mar and walking up to F'Nerah, "Lady F'Nerah, Elizabeth and I are at your command since the other elders have been incapacitated. Please ask us any questions if you may need to."

[Shadowknight]

"Grr, it's nothing, just annoyed by guys that instantly take the side of whoever's got the biggest chest." Cyan huffed.

"See, told you we didn't do anything." Kitt smiled, instantly over her small wave of sadness.

"But someone did something, and as much as I hate having my vacation ruined, it looks like we're involved until it's finished." Katt sighed.

"Dangit, I should've put that tracking device in her when I had the chance." Shadow snapped his fingers, "Guess hindsight really is twenty twenty."