GREY DRAGON GUIDE AND THEORIES

Ah yes, anybody who knows me knows I'm madly in love with the Mechanist group and with grey draconium in general. Here's the god of the Grey-Bone Dragon guides, written by yours truely and her horrible obsession-ness of doom! <3

Of course, I just can't FIND the bloody post I put it in! It's either on DL (Dragon Legends, see links) or on DBDB (Dragon Booster Discussion Board, again see links) and I can't find it! Please help me- if you find the post that I put my Grey dragon information in, E-mail me or PM me on one of the message boards!! Please and thank you! <3

 

Episode Appearances

Alrighty, I've had an obsessive-rewatching of every episode of Dragon Booster, and I made notes of every single time anybody mentions grey draconium, grey dragons, the Mechanists... any of that. And I typed it out WORD-FOR-WORD what was said. I feel like I have no life. Oh well, I like the non-exsistant life I have online with my grey dragons. XD

 

 

THE HORN OF LIBRIS

Word: Get your gear. You must compete in the Horn of Libris race today.

Moordryd: Ugh, against Khatah and the Inner Order?

Word: I will provide a wraith dragon to help you win the race. You will bring me that trophy.

Moordryd: What’s so important about an old trophy?

Word: Ages ago, during the great Dragon-Human war, the powerful grey bone dragons were the final key to victory. They alone had the power to turn the colors of draconium against themselves. Each side in the war hunted the grey dragon as the ultimate weapon to dominate the planet. The Dragon Booster stopped all of that. But there is a legend that speaks of a mystical device that has the power to summon the last of the grey dragons. I believe that device to be the Horn of Libris trophy. It is passed down through the generations and today these fools have forgotten the power it really has. The grey bone dragon’s power can help me turn the dragons of Dragon City against each other, and then the world shall fall before me.

 

Khatah: I am Khatah, Horn of Libris Champion, and you have ruined everything, Artha Penn.

 

Khatah: Sorry?! That is all I get?!

Artha: It’s just a trophy. You can win it back next year.

Khatah: It’s not just a trophy! I have to get it back! I am the great Khatah, and it is my responsibility.

Artha: Responsibility? What are you talking about?

Khatah: Aah, you will not understand. You’re just a kid. What do you know about being a hero?

 

Kitt: You heard what he said. Get the trophy back, and responsibility? He’s obsessed with the Horn. I think Khatah’s going to go after Moordryd!

Artha: There must be more to it if Moordryd and Word went through all that trouble to cheat and get it.

Parm: The Inner Order crew versus the Dragon Eye Crew. That would be a terrible street war. Maybe that’s Word’s plan.

 

Word: Is the horn safe?

Moordryd: In the vault, as you commanded.

Word: Good. I’m sending a team of Wraith Dragons to escort you and the horn to my location. But I caution you: do not use the Horn of Libris. You do not want to call a grey bone dragon unless you know how to control it An angry Libris will be ready to start a battle. I want him to start a war!

 

Artha: Psst! Up here!

Khatah: Oh great!

Artha: Great?! I came here to help you!

Khatah: I don’t need a kid to help me! I am Khatah!

Artha: You have no idea what you’re mixed up in, Khatah. The Horn of Libris is more than just a trophy. We don’t know all the details, but we heard Moordryd say that if the horn is used, some kind of grey dragon named Libris will show up.

Kitt: And start a Dragon-Human war! Is that important enough?!

Khatah: So, now you know why I must get the trophy back, why my crew is counting on me.

Artha: We’re here together. Heroes don’t work alone.

 

Khatah: Hold them back! I’ll get the horn!

Artha: You?! What about me?! Us?! Khatah!

 

DB: You go the trophy, Paynn, but you just lost the race! Don’t do it, Moordryd! You can’t control a grey bone dragon!

Moordryd: Neither can you!

**

Kitt: Eeh, what’s that noise?! It’s horrible!

<roar>

Parm: I am thinking that sound is a bit worse.

**

DB: You don’t know what you’ve just done.

Moordryd: Well I know what I’m doing now! Getting out of here!

Khatah: This is not over, Paynn!

Moordryd: No, but it will be shortly

[We hear footsteps. Lance is watching a puddle as it vibrates with the force of the steps. A shadow of a big head starts to emerge. Lance becomes aware of it and turns around. Libris gives a high screech sound and pushes his nose forward, breaking the wall. Lance stares up in horror. Kitt comes flying by on Wyldfyr, grabbing Lance as Libris’ foot comes down where he had been. She sets him on a ledge.]

Kitt: Stay here!

[We see a side view of Parm on Cyrano, the dragon’s stubby legs pumping. As we zoom out, we see Libris chasing him, snapping. ]

Parm: Oooh, no!

[We cut to a top view with Libris chasing Cyrano. Kitt comes in perpendicular to them, running for Libris. Wyldfyr rams Libris’ foreleg. Libris throws his head back and roars before his head comes right up to the screen. We see Kitt running down a narrow street-like thing in the compound. It’s obviously from Libris’ point of view as the camera goes up and down like he’s running, each time getting closer to Kitt. Cut to Kitt’s face, which has a terrified expression as we see Libris’ head right behind her. We zoom out to see Libris running again. His eyes change from green to red suddenly. We then see Kitt and Wyldfyr running from above again, but they’re solid red, the same color as Libris’ eyes. A red mag stream forms in front of Libris (right between this teeth, actually) and shoots forward, grabbing Kitt by her back. Kitt is thrown forward off of Wyldfyr. She skids hard and turns around to look at Libris. She gasps as his head is right over her, snapping.]

Parm: Libris, stay away from her!

[Libris turns his head to look at Parm, who looks ready to wet his pants and holding a blocking staff in front of him. Libris’ eyes change to green suddenly and we see Parm from Libris’ point of view; he’s glowing green similar to what Kitt was doing. Libris narrows his eyes (though we only see one narrow) and Parm looks ready to faint. We cut to a side view of Libris and Parm, Parm looking ready to die and Libris opening his mouth a little.]

DB: Parmon, drop your weapon and power down your gear! Libris is using your own draconium energy against you. If you fight, he’ll fight, that’s why the bone dragon is dangerous! He uses your own power against you!

Parm: A-are you sure?

DB: TRUST. ME.

Parm: Uuh, hehe, hello, nice dragon. [Parm drops his blocking staff] N-nothing up my sleeves.

[Libris’ eye flashes and we hear blocking staff fighting in the background. Libris turns and sees Moordryd and Khatah fighting. The screen then changes so that we’re still looking at the same thing, but it’s being reflected in Libris’ eye. Libris raises his head and looks at the fighting pair. He begins to advance towards them.]

DB: Khatah! Moordryd! Stop fighting!

[Libris advances closer. The two are still fighting and appear oblivious to the danger. Libris gets right by them and opens his mouth. We suddenly see as though we were inside his mouth, so that his top and bottom teeth are on the top and bottom of the screen as we see Moordryd and Khatah stop fighting and jump back.]

DB: Forget the Horn of Libris, Khatah. This isn’t about you and the horn, it’s about us and Dragon City and the whole world! We need your help right now. Stop fighting!

[Khatah had raised his staff, ready to attack. He relaxes his stance, then sighs. Holding his staff in front of himself, parallel to the ground, he just drops it. It clangs and Moordryd looks over at him. Moordryd relaxes the stance he had on his staff. As Khatah turns to look at DB, Moordryd re-raises his staff, ready to attack while Khatah isn’t ready. Libris roars. Moordryd lowers his staff some and looks at Libris, who is now focusing his attention of Moordryd alone. Libris’ eye narrows and flashes to purple-black. We see Moordryd from Libris’ eyes, glowing purple like Kitt and Parm before him. Moordryd is clutching his staff in front of himself, terrified. Libris moves his massive head closer to Moordryd, who clutches his staff closer, shivering several times before tossing it away. Beau roars, shaking his chin-fin. Libris turns to look at Beau. Then we see Beau standing tall and Libris steps down. He roars nastily.]

DB: I won’t fight you.

[Libris roars again, and Kitt, Lance and Parm are taken aback. Beau gets an idea and powers up a mag stream. Only, not a mag stream. The mag energy flows up white, then descends into Parm, Kitt, and Lance, who are awe-struck. Libris’ head snaps to look at the trio, the mag energy glowing on him. The light coalesces into a ball on Parm, Kitt, and Lance’s chests.]

Parm: Woah!

Kitt: Woah!

[Libris looks back and forth again, now confused. A mag ball thingy lands on Moordryd then Dragon Booster. Lance’s lights up blue, then Kitt’s red, Parmon’s doesn’t light up, but he still stares in awe. Moordryd’s lights up, then finally Artha’s. ]

 

 

 

 

MISJUDGED

Word: Do you know what this is?

Kawake: Grey draconium! It exists?

Word: Yes. I have found the old shedding grounds where the grey dragons used to deposit their exo-bones. Think of it: The power and the adaptability of grey draconium, the way it can mesh with other energies and life forces. I can build you legs. You can race once more. You’ll never be embarrassed like that again.

Kawake: I am retired, paralyzed.

Word: Kawake, don’t you see? We can use grey draconium to unite humans and dragons as never before. There will be no war. But I need you and your Earth-class dragon to dig for it. Here’s the map. Just consider it.

 

Kawake: I am digging for grey draconium to help save the planet from a dragon-human war.

 

Kawake: It’s not grey draconium! It’s black!

 

 

 

THE MECHANIST

Parm: This doesn’t make sense, Artha. The way Moordryd has been racing Decepshun, her energy coefficient should be running at negative by now.”

 

Parm: Artha, Beau will not have enough energy to finish the race if you keep pushing him like this.

Artha: Well, if that’s true, Decepshun should be ready to fall at any second .

 

Parm: I have precisely monitored Decepshun’s energy expenditure this race, and, well, it’s.. it’s just not possible.

 

Rivett: What the Mechanist give, we can take away.

 

Rivett:  Maybe next time, you’ll give me my full price, Paynn, and tell me what I want to know.

 

Rivett:  Now, on to more pressing business.

 

Parm: I still don’t understand how Moordryd maintained such an exponentially increasing use of Decepshun’s draconium reserves.

Rivett: I do. You know, I watched you today out there. You race like a real champion, Penn. You’ll make a true Elite racer one day.

And who are you?

Rivett: My name is Rivett, and I am a friend. By the way, don’t feel bad. Moordryd was using grey assist gear.

Parm: Of course! Grey assist gear! Very rare, and very powerful.

Kitt: Made from grey draconium, it can make any gear even stronger and help your dragon go beyond his draconium limits.

Rivett: I want you to have it.

 

Rivett: To sort of… level the playing field. I’ve been watching your crew for a while. You’re going to make it to the academy, I can tell.

 

Artha: I saw it Beau. He must have his own personal shadow gear.

 

Rivett: Well, we seem to be a bit of a standoff.

Artha: From where I’m sitting, it seems like this chase is over.

Rivett: I’m not the thief everyone says I am. I’m on what you might call… a mission.

Artha: What kind of mission?

Rivett: I used to be at the Academy. Y’see, I’m a Mechanist.

Artha: The crew of the grey-bone dragon?

Rivett: Yes, like the mighty Libris.

Artha: You know about Libris?! How?

Rivett: Libris was once my dragon. I have to find the horn that calls him.

Artha: Well, the-the horn of Libris was given to Dragon City Security by the Dragon Booster.

Rivett: Thank the Magna Draconis it’s safe! My quest can continue.

 

Kitt: I can’t believe you let him go!

Artha: He said he was on a quest to stop another Dragon-Human war, and I believe him.

Parm: I hope you know what you’re doing.

Artha: Yeah, me too.

Lance: Yeah, me three.

Khatah: We have discovered who the thief is! It is Rivett! I should have known when I saw the new grey assist gear on Paynn’s dragon. Thank the Magna Draconis Rivett is not after the Horn of Libris. With that much power, there is no telling what kind of disaster that Mechanist thief could cause. He is a dangerous one. He was expelled from the Academy for using grey draconium in a most questionable way. His experiments ran towards the ancient arts. He used it on dragons, and humans.

 

Armageddon: He played you for a fool. He’s only trying to get information. He’s a Mechanist, I’m certain of it.

Moordryd: A Mechanist?

Armageddon: Who else would want to know about Libris?

 

Artha: Mortis, I don’t know if he’s really a thief or not, but I don’t believe he’s bad. There was something about him, something honorable, he knew about Libris! He said he wanted to stop the Dragon-Human war.

Mortis: Historically, the Mechanists have been known to be profiteers, little better than pirates. During the war, many of them sold grey draconium to the highest bidder.

Artha: But he gave me the grey assist pod.

Mortis: Grey draconium is very dangerous, Artha. It is one of the main things that separate All City gear from Elite gear. It is why the Empires of the past coveted the powerful grey bone dragons such as Libris- to make battle gear.

 

DB: Looks like somebody’s in an awfully big rush.

Rivett: Dragon Booster! I’ve been expecting you I don’t want to fight you. I was just trying to get a little… special attention for my calls.

Word: This does not concern you, Dragon Booster. Leave the criminal to me.

DB: Sorry, Word, but this very much concerns me.

Word: Very well, Dragon Booster. Have it your way.

DB: Wraith dragons! You wanted attention? You got it. Mag him, Beau! Let’s get out of here!

 

DB: What’s going on, Rivett?

Rivett: You were there, when Libris appeared! You know how dangerous the grey dragons are. He was there to help the original Dragon Booster restore the balance. I have to find him, or he and others like him can be used to start another Dragon-Human war. He must be there again. Many of the other grey dragons were altered during the war, using a hybrid of black and grey draconium.

DB: That sounds like the same thing you were doing at the Academy before you were kicked out.

Rivett:  The same experiments, yes, but for vastly different reasons. You see? Libris is not alone. There are other grey dragons still alive. They’re in hiding. They have been altered. If somebody were to find them and reactivate the ancient gear, they would have a most terrible army at their disposal. All they would need to do was control Libris so he could not stop them again.

 DB: So you need the horn that’s inside Precinct. You’re trying to get caught! I think you better come with me for now. We need to talk to somebody. Rivett! Stop! Rivett? Rivett! Rivett!

 

Phistus: If what you say is true about the Horn of Libris and the grey dragon it calls, we must help Dragon City Security stop this Rivett, and his Mechanists.

Khatah: I second that. We should go at once to Precinct and await him.

Let’s go!

 

Moordryd: Or we can catch the little thief ourselves and take the horn. A crew that acquires the horn and the Grey dragon it calls would be invincible.

Cain: They’ll never get along they’ll all want the horn for themselves, it’ll be chaos.

Moordryd: Exactly. They’ll go to Precinct and Fist-head and his sorry bunch with try to stop them. In the mayhem we’ll grab Rivett and the Horn of Libris.

Cain: And just how are WE supposed to catch him?

Moordryd: I’m the only one who knows the only other way out of Precinct, Cain. When Rivett comes out with the Horn, he’s ours.

 

Rivett: I never thought it would come to this.

 

Parm: Bad news, Artha, I’m getting a very peculiar energy reading from inside the Precinct station.

DB: Lemme guess, grey draconium? Then Rivett is already inside.

Parm: I’m sure of it.

DB: Wish I hadn’t guessed that.

 

Moordryd: He has human-powered shadow and escape gear?! It must be the grey draconium.

 

Db: No time to explain! The horn of Libris, is it safe?!

 

DB: Haa, thank the Magna draconis!

Faier: Safe and sound, Dragon Booster. Safe and sound.

 

Artha: I knew he was on our side.

Mortis: It does appear that he chose the your safety over the Horn of Libris.

Parm: But with all of his gear and his skills, he could get back into Precinct again.

Lance: Hopefully he’s learned his lesson.

Kitt: We may never know.

Lance: Somehow, I don’t think we’ve seen the last of the Mechanist.

 

 

 

NO PAYNN, NO GAIN

Rivett: Artha Penn.

Kitt: Rivett? Uuh, I don’t know about this, Artha.

Rivett: You wanna sneak into the Academy or not? This device will deactivate any security systems you come upon. Ah-ah.

Artha: What?

Rivett: You haven’t told me WHY you want to sneak into the Academy.

Kitt: What? Huh.

Artha: I need information from a library that will help save Word Paynn.

Rivett: Aah. You’re beginning to sound like a Mechanist, young Artha Penn. You understand that not all in life is black and white. There is MUCH grey.

Official Information

From the official site and... stuff...

Information from Rob Travalino

Or, as many of you know him, our almighty lord and master and creator of Dragon Booster! Wait... or is that just me?

 

Anyway, this is information provided to us from Rob Travalino, one of the two main writers of the entire Dragon Booster series. He's a member of the Dragon Booster Discussion Board under the username The Magna Draconis. He's been very kind, and has answered questions and provided prerelease information, as well as extra information, for us at the Dragon Booster Discussion Board!

 

 

Questions from the FAQ with Rob:

QUOTE (From Round 2- Mari)

Can you tell us more about Grey dragons and Libris? We know they shed what are called exo-bones (Are these what give Libris his skeletal appearance?), that they were mass-produced by combining them with black draconium to make battle gear, and they have some sort of “balance”. What is that balance? A balance of all the draconium colors within them and if so, how does it get unbalanced? How old is Libris? Is he the last grey bone that isn’t mixed with black draconium? Do all the grey dragons have the same basic look of Libris? Can you tell us about Libris’ history a little? Did Rivett bring him to the Academy and is that how Libris got so large(the evolution process)? And Word said at the beginning of the series "by turning all dragons back to gold", yet Rivett implies that Libris was there during the original Dragon-Human war; so, did Libris just not get changed to gold, or what?

Fabulous question Mari. Gray draconium works like an amplifier in a sense, that it makes any color of draconium more powerful. Because it's essentially neutral, it works equally on all dragons and is used in all of the gear in tiny amounts, but gray draconium is also influenced and powered by the other draconium powers too which is why it is very dangerous and sparingly allowed by the powers that be. During the time of the great draconium empires, the gray dragons were hunted for their draconium, much as elephants are hunted for tusks for medicine. Gray dragons ally with no one and it took centuries for the mechanists to tame just one! Mechanists really just trade and use the already shed exo bones and have buiit a crew and business around that. Rivett as revolutionary as he appears, is quite different than that! Yes, Libris is an evolved dragon by the way, very right on! The secret is that the horn was given to the original Dragon Booster to call the gray dragons at just the right time in the war. Hint: stopping the war was about balance!

 

 

QUOTE (From Round 2- Liliwen and The Furox)

Who originally created the Horn of Libris and why? The horn summons Libris of course, but why did someone need a way to summon him and what were they planning to do once they summoned him? Is Libris compelled to respond to the horn (i.e., does it control him) or does he do so of his own free will? Do other grey boned dragons have horns that summon them as well? Also, how did Libris manage to arrive at Moordryd's compound so quickly once he was called? Is something supernatural involved?

Awesome and deep question! And when I say deep, I mean deep within Dragon City. The grey dragons constructed the horn themselves and gave it to the Original Dragon Booster to use to summon them into battle if needed. Since gray dragons shed their exo-bones which are used as amplifying draconium for the other colors, grey dragons by their very makeup are susceptible to influence from other strong sources. This is why they were hunted down during the war, some were as I said in another answer and sadly, 'poached' while others were harnessed to fight, controlled by other dragons and masters that were as powerful as dragon priests atop evolved bone-marked dragons like the Furox. Since the grey dragons became very wary of being misled, they had to create a special device tuned to their frequency. The Blue Draconium Empire (which later became the Inner Order Crew) produced the Blue Booster, who worked with the Dragon Booster to stop the war and he hid the horn within the ancient remains of his temple. The crew that followed, found the horn, knew the secret and protected it by hiding it in plain sight....the last place anybody would look! Libris sensed that the horn was taken as grey dragons are very in tune with other grey draconium and its location (he could sense that it as in the presence of Moordryd's black draconium energy and was already close by)

 

 

Information from other sites

Information klepto-ed from other websites in the form of screenshots WITH FULL CREDIT!!! YA HEAR ME?!?! THESE ARE NOT MINE!!!

Grey Bone History

According to Rob, grey dragons are the oldest breed (apart from gold, but they don't count since they were the first and original breed), so they were the first to evolve from the Star dragons.

But it was during the DH war when the hybrids were created. They were mixed with black so they were easier to control, and the black somehow increased the amount of exobone production (I believe). When Rivett was in the academy, he was doing experiments similar to those during the war that created the hybrids, except for "vastly different reasons", which implies that Rivett was doing those experiments, perhaps, to try to find a way to purify the hybrids back to pure grey.