Fire & Ice Page #5

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A King's ransom

for the dragon's head.

- You can't possibly consider...

- Be quiet.

You have my word.

What say you?

Come.

Steady there, steady.

Well done, my boy!

Good shot!

So, you finally got

the smoke cloud to work.

When did you test it?

I didn't.

It was far too dangerous.

I decided I would let you

test it for me. Thank you.

Let's have a talk with these two.

Your Majesties,

judging by what I saw this afternoon,

I think we can say with certainty

that neither I nor any other man

can defeat this dragon.

You fought off the fire dragon today.

Can't be impossible.

No, he said he thought it impossible

for any man to defeat this dragon.

Then why is Quilok's kingdom

seemingly protected

from the dragon?

A dragon is the incarnation

of malevolence.

It will attack in an attempt

to destroy anything and everything

except a dracon.

The dracon is the sphere

we see between the dragon's eyes.

The dracon is, in fact, a shell...

the egg which holds

the dragon's offspring.

Quilok must have a dracon

perched atop his castle.

And how did Quilok come

to get the dracon?

My father.

Gabriel's father killed an ice dragon.

He cut the dracon out of it.

He is the only man

ever to have done so.

Every dragon is born female

and carries with it a single dracon

for all of its life.

Before a dragon dies,

it will expel its dracon.

Then the infant dragon emerges.

It learns quickly.

Within a few days,

it can feed and fly.

Then it abandons its mother to die...

...and flies away.

And the whole cycle begins again.

A fascinating lesson.

I'm sure the King would arrange

a teaching position for you.

How do we kill it?

As I said, we can't kill it.

But another dragon can.

Another dragon?

You can't trust Gabriel.

We have no idea

what he intends to do.

He will bring

further destruction to us.

He's a liar, like his father!

What do you mean by that?

When his father was a knight

to Quilok I,

it was no secret

that he hated the prince.

Quilok I held Alador

in very high regard.

They were very close,

having been through

many difficult times together.

So why was he banished?

After the King died,

Alador remained as head knight.

The young Quilok valued

Alador's experience,

but the feeling was not mutual.

He questioned every decision

the King made.

Alador believed

that he himself should be King.

Quilok had much patience with him

out of respect for the relationship

he had with his father,

but he was then told

Alador was going to attempt

to overthrow the King.

Quilok then put a price on his head,

and Alador fled,

never to be heard from again.

He was a man without virtue...

or morals.

And now it seems his son is able

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