David is supposed to retrieve the dark fire so the Wearle can destroy it. However, the ritual goes wrong and Gwilanna disappears, while David comes and manages to get the obsidian. Zanna decides to go herself and finds Gwilanna doing a ritual on Farlowe island to demand that the Fain illuminate her to a dragon, or else she will give the dark fire to the Ix. Agatha reveals that she is a sybil, and transfers healing knowledge to Zanna.Дavid asks Zanna for help finding Gwilanna, who has the piece of obsidian with Gwillan's fire tear which has inverted into dark fire. He leaves all of his books and Arctic collection to David, with the request that they remain in the house, which he has left to Zanna along with all his remaining finances, hoping David and Zanna will fall in love again. He leaves large sums of money to the library, his sister Agatha, and Liz, with some to be set aside for Lucy's college. Henry Bacon has a stroke and passes away. Once the dragons return and the environment stabilizes, any bears that chose to come back to earth can. David says a small number of humans will be illuminated like Alexa, but that most will, like the polar bears, enter Ki:mera, the Fain dimension. The Wearle plans for the Fire Eternal to be opened and the Ix will be transformed.

This requires the Ix to be grouped together as an Ix:risor, Comm:Ix, or Cluster like the one that possessed Lucy. The Fain want to help the dragons recolonize and bring all the Ix back so they can be destroyed. The Fain did not know when they commingled with humans that they would be so aggressive and competitive with each other and come against the dragons-that is how the Ix were formed. Alexa slowly grows wings throughout the book and when Zanna asks about this, David says Alexa is a messenger, a mixture of illuminated Fain and human, and that she will be the bridge between humans and dragons that keeps the humans from attacking the dragons like when they were wiped out in the past. Alexa is a Fain being, and she influenced Arthur to find Gawain's claw and write David into existence so she could come to Earth as David's human child. Steiner begins translating the inscriptions from the photos, which tell about the last twelve dragons on earth, and eventually publishes it in Tam Farrell's magazine.ДЄrthur reveals to Liz that David told him he was actually meant to be their son, if Gwilanna had not forced them apart years ago and disrupted the Fain's plan. Henry's ancestor had been on the expedition where the photos were taken and the photo of a polar bear in his living room is actually Professor Bergstrom in polar bear form. (This is later revealed to be Professor Bergstrom who met and commingled with the bear Thoran his pocket watch is the one David now uses to communicate with the Wearle.) Steiner had been told about the photographs through a letter signed by someone with the initials HB, who Lucy concludes must be their Arctic-obsessed neighbor Henry Bacon. Professor Steiner remembers that the college archives have photos of similar markings from a cave on Hella glacier near the Tooth of Ragnar, which had been taken decades ago by a scientist who disappeared in the Arctic. Lucy's dragon Gwendolen tells them it is the written form of dragontongue, and translates the message as 'Scuffenbury' which is a place in Maine with a white horse carved in the chalk hillside, across from a large mound called Glissington Tor, which legend says is the tomb of a dragon. Arthur, Liz, and Lucy go to Steiner's house and he shows them writing Gadzooks had done in an unidentifiable script. Rupert Steiner, a professor friend of Arthur's, has called and described the appearance of Gadzooks at his house. He also says that the Earth is ready to accept a new species other than dragons. David later tells Zanna that a fire star has opened above the arctic and a dragon colony, called a Wearle, is forming there, waiting for the climate to adjust before they gradually reveal themselves to the world. The narrative reveals that this is the ice dragon G'Oreal. A young Inuit man named Apak is out on the ice and sees a huge creature with large wings and violet eyes. A mysterious mist has formed over the Arctic, drawing the world's attention and the curiosity of scientists as no one can get through it and all the polar bears have disappeared into it. The sequel to The Fire Eternal, it is followed by Fire World.Дavid has recently returned after being missing for five years and is slowly reintegrating to the lives of those at Wayward Crescent. Dark Fire is the fifth book in The Last Dragon Chronicles, released in 2009 by Chris d'Lacey.

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