Dragons: Fire & Ice

Dragons: Fire & Ice

Year: 2004

Runtime: 72 mins

Language: English

Director: Keith Ingham

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Two young rival dragon riding warriors fight to end a 1000 year old war despite the hidden manipulator opposing them.

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The story unfolds by revealing the origin of the mighty, fire-breathing dragons and the crystalline power they carry. These creatures and their dazzling crystals arrive in the human world through a portal from their own realm. Initially, the dragons mean to share knowledge and seek peace, but the human kingdoms—Norvagen and Draigar—misinterpret what they are offered, twisting it toward war. In the midst of this tension, Thoron the Dragon King wields the legendary Aurathon crystal and entrusts a trusted figure, Xenos, a skilled wizard, to serve as an ambassador between the dragons and the two warring realms. Xenos promises gifts of immortality and power, and the dragons’ crystals seem to offer a path to harmony across their worlds. Yet a shadow falls when a malignant force arrives, killing the Dragon Queen and seizing her ice crystal, scattering the dragons and sowing distrust.

In the present day, the two human kingdoms are locked in fear and suspicion. On the Norvagen side, King Olsef pushes his eight-year-old son toward military training, openly declaring his hatred of the Draigar and blaming them for the dragons’ disappearance. The boy, Prince Dev, shows a ferocious impulsiveness in practice, yet his father believes him ready to ride the last surviving dragon, Targon. Simultaneously, in Draigar, King Siddari trains Princess Kyra to master the skies on the last dragon, Aurora. Both royals receive the same blessing from Xenos, and both learn to fly as war looms on the horizon. During a training flight, a strange fireball splits the sky, and a black dragon on fire crashes through, knocking the young royals and their mounts into an ancient battlefield. The black dragon drinks in a bright green crystal on its neck and marks the two children with mystical teardrops before vanishing again. As the duel between the two fathers erupts, Xenos watches from afar, sensing that the battle has only begun.

Eight years pass, and Dev and Kyra have grown into sixteen-year-olds who wield unusual abilities and a clear desire to end the war. They pursue peace, even as their fathers refuse to listen, and their bold actions draw the attention of Xenos once more. After a clash between the two sides escalates toward further bloodshed, an army of Vorgans unexpectedly captures the kings. Xenos arrives just in time to rescue the two teens and transports them to his icebound fortress, where he urges them to seize the Aurathon from a rogue dragon so they can free their fathers and bring about an end to hostilities. In the cave lair, the rogue dragon proves powerful, and the youths are overwhelmed. The dragon reveals the scheme: Xenos seeks the Aurathon for himself, scheming to exploit its power. The youths escape to the Ring of Oroborus, where the Dragon reveals his true identity—Thoron—the Dragon King who guards the realm of dragons. He explains the tangled history: Xenos had once been granted mastery over dragon crystals not to dominate but to foster unity between worlds. Yet he betrayed the Dragon Queen with the aid of a vengeful dragon named Stendahl, and Thoron intercepted only after a long struggle. Thoron, driven by fury, wrested control of the Aurathon as Stendahl attacked, and when the moment came, Stendahl’s schemes would force Thoron to sacrifice much to keep the Dragon World from ruin.

In a dramatic turn, the Aurathon becomes embedded within Dev and Kyra, granting them control over their innate elemental powers—fire for Dev and air for Kyra. They begin to train more intensely, but their first test comes when a disturbance tears open the Ring of Oroborus, triggering a fresh alert to Xenoz’s treachery. With Targon and Aurora at their sides, the couple escapes Xenoz’s grasp and makes a perilous journey back to his castle to retrieve the Aurathon and confront the truth about their lineage and powers. There, Thoron arrives and discovers Xenoz’s deception as he confronts the icy minions guarding Xenoz. The revelation about Xenoz’s past—his immortality masking a grim wound that cannot heal—explains his ruthless hunger for revenge and power. The kings, disillusioned by their ally’s betrayal, rally behind the youths, who have learned their place among the dragons and their crystals.

A tense showdown unfolds. Xenoz attempts to seize the Aurathon from Dev and Kyra by using a mind-reading crystal to locate it within them, and then to extract it from their bodies. Thoron intervenes, and the echo of the Dragon Queen’s skeleton reminds the heroes of their true purpose. Xenoz’s ambush is interrupted as Kyra delivers a sharp strike that exposes the hidden burn on Xenoz’s face—a constant reminder of the price of his immortality. He seeks to reopen a portal to Dragon World, hoping to secure the Aurathon there, but Thoron refuses to let him win. The young pair draw on their bond with the dragons to break free and place the Aurathon back on Thoron’s necklace, ready to end Xenoz’s domination once and for all. In a climactic clash, Thoron stands between Xenoz and the escape route, sacrificing himself to shield the others and dragging Xenoz back into Dragon World. With Xenoz banished and the threat unmasked, the ice fortress begins to crumble, and the kings and their children flee with Targon and Aurora to safety.

The dawn after the battle brings a fragile peace. Norvagen and Draigar celebrate the downtrodden years behind them, now tempered by the return of dragons to the skies. Dev and Kyra mount their dragons once more, taking to the heavens alongside the restored dragons in a hopeful flight that signals a new era. Yet the final vow from Xenoz lingers in the Dragon World, spoken from a prison within the Aurathon itself: This is not over.

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