Earth Bond, chapter 9 discussion [Spoilers]

[expedient]

I have this image in my head of a bunch of fire dragons scrambling over the stands in LA cheering on their team. Just imagine how intimidated any opposition would be. Talk about a partisan crowd

[GBLW]

I have this image in my head of a bunch of fire dragons scrambling over the stands in LA cheering on their team. Just imagine how intimidated any opposition would be. Talk about a partisan crowd

Actually, I was thinking of the team hiring one as a mascot

[Javna]

I have this image in my head of a bunch of fire dragons scrambling over the stands in LA cheering on their team. Just imagine how intimidated any opposition would be. Talk about a partisan crowd

When i read the new chapter i had the same idea that the fire dragons was going to join the people cheering on there team one day

[konman]

If the Fire Dragons are getting a bit stir crazy they can always senn a few NFL players out to visit. Would be a great way of getting the Fire Dragons to learn english.

On another point.
I sense a budding Romance forming between Kell & Kammi.

[Mizriath]

On another point.
I sense a budding Romance forming between Kell & Kammi.

Fel stories always have a love interest.... and it is shown early in most of his stories. Earth Bond is already starting to be different where the love interest is not so clear. Kammi seems pretty obvious by the words in the story

"Kammi. He’d found himself glancing over at her from time to time. She was an obnoxious little thing, cheeky and irritating, but she’d always been a good friend of his, a drake mature enough to discuss the intricacies of doing a Linux install but still young enough to play like a hatchling. But…she was, well, growing on him. He couldn’t quite explain it. He’d gotten so used to her being around, it was weird when she wasn’t. She’d always been a good friend, but he’d never…missed her before."

I am more interested in the magic that Kell is going to obtain and who will teach him the magic lessons. Learning it together with Jenny from Hinado? Or from that spirit, the higher ups, mother earth, eh.

[SYED]

Magica ;items can replicate any cast magic, I wonder if this extends to dragon natures. SO immunity to water, fire, air, earth and energy can be given to the holder. A bubble head that helps with sea pressure and diving. A buble to help breathing.
Imagine a talisman that makes a person immune to bullets, so it would become practise to some how get talismans to stop assasins, and assasins targeting the talisman first. A talisman that give immunity to fire, would allow firefighters who can walk through flames.
SAy two mirros are linked together so they each shows what the other sees and hears.
A hider didnt turn and ED dragom in to a human, it did turn an ED drake into an ED humanoid. SO I really dont think its possible for a human to change to a dragon form.

[Mark_Reed]

It seems to me that the (partial) migration of the Fire Dragons has given away the location of the Island.

While Fire Dragons don't seem to be stupid, they have allowed themselves to become mentally lax and are preoccupied with other things. What are the chances that their flight to Hawaii was a straight-line course? They had a long flight, and I doubt they wanted to make it even longer by making course changes. Plus, any AWACS that happened to be nearby could have picked them up in flight. Given that the humans knew they were coming, a sharp navy or air force commander (who might have been told so that they did not fire on the dragons as they passed nearby US military resources) could have "just happened" to have put one up for recon while the dragons were flying by. Even if they didn't, the ground based radar should have picked them up since they don't have the magic that air dragons do. It would be a simple exercise to backtrack course and speed to vastly narrow the possible area that the Island is in.

[SYED]

SD can mess with senses, while WD can alter sonar to hide themselves. The FD were likly seen by satelites since they left the island or could be back tracked.
THe general region of the island is now going to be inundated with ships. There are two things left to leak, the magic guide and the language.

[ANTIcarrot]

Minor point: At some point the Fire Dragons are going to have to be told to NOT use the word 'tribute'. Due to american history, it is an extremely an extremely 'dishonourable' term, and could cause a lot of problems if they're careless with it. 'Gift' woudl be much more convenient. This would no doubt confuse the Firedragons, but they'd no doubt go along with it.

And they didn't even check the satcom for bugs and hidden traps? I'm shocked. Shocked and apalled.Not that it matters too much, the NRO has almost certainly moved one of their satellites to sit above the Pacific ocean to trace exactly where the uplink signal is coming from.If they're using non-GSO satellites, then signal strength will also give them very precise locations. I assume the US either knows or will know very soon exactly where dragon island is.

[Javna]

I assume the US either knows or will know very soon exactly where dragon island is.

If not the US, u will have every other country will try figure out were it is. Im guessing that it will be the new crisis like the Cuban one. The other country's demand to get access to the dragons on US soil .... oooo the trouble awaiting around the corner.