When your dragon can't breathe fire, you have to work extra hard to prove yourself. Hatching Day has come and gone, and the festivities are over. Will's greatest hope was achieved when his egg hatched and he bonded with a dragon. But to everyone's shock, the hatchling that emerged is different. Vortex is white! The dragon riders are convinced that Vortex is a pale shade of a usual color, but when Will's dragon can't produce so much as a spark of fire, they start to suspect something is wrong with him. With the coming Dragon Games, Will finally has a chance to prove his dragon's worth and buy his parent's freedom. But a greater danger than he imagines awaits them; a threat that all dragons, no matter how different, must band together to fight. If they fail, they could lose everything.