A shockwave has pulsed throughout the dragon kingdoms recently; stories of dragons with metal parts have sprung up all over, and - more significantly - a small network of lights have appeared on one of the moons' dark side. Nobody has a proper explanation, as much as they try - even the RainWings are sent into a relative frenzy trying to figure it out. 

Recently, there's been a... breakthrough, of sorts. Dragons have been taken prisoner in many places, seemingly being left there intentionally, under a deep coma. The weirdest part is that they have a few... unique features. Metal parts in place of flesh, two heartbeats, or scales as tough as steel and as sharp as diamonds, to name a few. Now is simply the question - what will dragonkind do now that they have these captives? 

[Happens roughly one year after the recorded events of A Flame of Hope.]