>What became of the dragons afterward, then?
>Eventually, Giovanni's Dragons were overthrown. Some of them were reported to have turned on each other; the dragons of Garnet and Quartz, for instance, are recorded to have fought with each other for days over what are now the Blue Mountains in Eagleland, and stone tablets located in western Japanada tell of how the Brass Dragon was destroyed by the Onyx Dragon. Why these dragons began to fight with each other is not always clear, apart from the Onyx Dragon, who is recorded to be one of, if not the, most violent and evil of all the dragons. Scholars can only speculate as to why he obeyed the Diamond Dragon as long as he did.
>Though the methods are unknown and fiercely debated how this came to pass, it is known that the humanoid races learned how to employ Draconic magic. This power surpassed anything they had developed before, and finally allowed them to effectively fight back against their oppressors. Oddly, some historians argue fiercely that certain dragons, the Dragons of Carnelian, Jade, Amethyst and Gold specifically, gave this magic to the humanoids, to let them fight the more evil dragons on their own. While Keine has said that there is in fact some information that seems to support these claims, it is too damaged to be reliable.
>The key turning point in the Dragonstorm however, was the betrayal of the Alabaster Dragon of her draconic brethren. In Yamato, she found a woman named Hidea no Ao. Pooling their knowledge and power, the two called down a rainbow from the heavens and forged the seven colors into seven dragons, shaped differently than Giovanni's Dragons. Two more dragons, one of white light and one of pitch blackness, were also made by Hidea and Alabaster. These nine dragons fought against Giovanni's, and over the next several years- as far as can be determined- the dragons that had ruled the world for so long were defeated one after another, some perishing in the violence, others simply fading out of history after being defeated. The fates of several of the dragons of Giovanni has yet to be discovered. Some resurfaced centuries, even millenia, later. The Pearl Dragon, for instance, came out of hiding to battle the Lunarians in the first Lunar Invasion, and died in the doing, but not before gaining a great deal of momentum for the Terran forces in Europe and Asia.
>The last dragon to stand was the Diamond Dragon, and the day that it was defeated by a coalition of heroes led by the Blue Dragon marks the start of year 0, the creation of the modern calender and the start of Post-Dragon society.
>Shake our head
>"Not in any way I could tell, at any rate."
>"Hmm.... Let me think."
>"I don't know what the whole 'holding it' thing might have meant," Reisen says as her master ponders, "but it's possible it was just a gift. Something made of jade isn't an uncommon gift in Yamato, after all." She chuckles quietly. "On the other hand, I've never heard of anyone giving anyone a piece of uncut jade as a gift before."
