Ferno the Fire Dragon

Ferno the Fire Dragon

First book in the Beast Quest series by Sawyer H.

                Caldor the Brave stood at the foot of the misty mountain. The knight’s bronze armor gleamed in the pale morning sunlight. He gripped a heavy sword.

               Turning to his squire, Robin, he used his weapon to point up the mountainside. “I’ll climb above the mist,” Caldor told the boy. “The dragon is close by. I can feel it. I just need to get above the mist so that I can see it.

               For the sake of our kingdom, it must be stopped!”He was soon lost from sight, swallowed by the eerie mist. Robin had never seen a mountainside like this before. With his master gone, he noticed how quiet it was. He shivered, although the air was warm.

               Suddenly, the mountain started to shake. Robin could feel the vibrations traveling through his feet and up his legs. He stumbled to one side and a huge shudder threw him to the ground, knocking his head so badly that his teeth clattered. There was a metallic taste in his mouth and he put a hand to his lips. Blood! What was happening?

             “Caldor!” Robin yelled, scrambling to his feet as the rocks shifted beneath him. “Come back!” But there was no way he could be heard above the grinding screeches that filled the air. The whole mountain shuddered and Robin froze. Was it about to come crashing down?

Rolling out of the way, he glimpsed Caldor high above him, clinging to the dark slope of the mountain. The spiked head of a huge beast reared up behind the knight. It's face was the same color as the slippery stones of the mountain. It's eyes glinted with dark fire.

              In this mythical, fantasy, adventure book: The main characters are: Tom, Elenna, Robin, Caldor, Ferno the fire dragon, King Hugo, Aduro the Wizard, Storm the Horse, Silver the wolf and the blacksmith.

             They live in Avantia--a  land that has been peaceful for ages--with terrains of deserts, mountains, seas, ice lands, forests and plains. Here Tom is  trying to do is put the beasts back to good because the evil wizard Malvel has cast a spell on the beasts so that they wreak havoc on Avantia.

Tom sets out on a quest to free the beasts from Malvel's spell. freeing the dragon restores water to Tom's town. The way Tom frees the beasts is by unlocking the enchanted chain and lock that Malvel put around each beast's neck. Each time tom frees a beast he gets a token, the fire dragon gives him a scale which he puts in his shield ,then his shield can withstand extreme heat.

             This book would be great for 3rd to 5th grade adventure lovers. My experience reading the Beast Quest series is that it is has balance of good, evil, tense, relaxed and happy. the other books in the Beast Quest series have an ice beast, centaur, cyclops, sea serpent, phoenix and many dark monsters like: a giant ape, stone charmer, moon wolf and a ice dragon.