It's a long story. How long? Well, let me give you the shorter version. My name's Illyria. Student at the DWA, the Dragon Watchers Academy. We don't stare up at the sky all day, staring at dragons, no, we ride them. Everybody here is or was bonded with a dragon when they came here. How, you ask? The dragons chose. They flew in from the North, like they do every year, and came to the school to view "the new batch" as Headmaster Rawls likes to call us. I'm one of only three kids chosen for a special program, which, I now suspect was not on accident, coincides with the Tournament of Flight. My dragon? Her name's Kaiya. Well I like to think she chose me for something..... special. Mysterious. The two other kids have dragons too. Raiku, the calmest dragon from here to the South Winds (nah... kidding. He's actually sometimes very clumsy) is Autumn's dragon. He kinda fits Autumn's personality too. Shy, yet smart and bubbly. Then there's Cole's dragon, Celeste. The rumored center of chaos around here and supposedly has been for ages. I dunno. Anyway, that's only my part of the story.