Stormbringer

**Stormbringer** is a dark-scaled Shadowhide dragon. She belongs to Axel Finke and was the first to actually care for him and Axel, after bonding with her, initially kept her a secret to protect her from his dragon-prejudice uncle and to stop the Rescue Riders from perhaps taking her away, but eventually revealed Stormbringer to the world as he rejected both Magnus and the Rescue Riders and became his best friend.

Later on, Stormbringer joined the Dragon Lord after Axel, wanting a place to belong, chose to enter the dark sorcerer's service despite Leyla's protests, but later defected after she and Axel saw that while they were being of use, they were hurting others. However, while she and the Rescue Riders now have the same enemy, she still distrusts them slightly and somewhat retains her distance from them for how they once treated her rider. She and Axel now live in the Wolf Tower on the seastacks on Huttsgalor's outskirts.

Axel reveals that Stormbringer was more determined than him and wanted to keep resisting the Dragon Lord during his early life in Nurmengard, but Axel couldn't stand watching her suffer. In battle Stormbringer could be ruthless, shown when she attacked Summer, using ruthless actions against the water dragons.

Because of her rider's mistreatment, Stormbringer's initially thoughts might have at first been darker than Winger or Summer's, but still possessed a strength and nobility. When Stormbringer apologized to the Riders for her part in their near destruction, she spoke in a respectful manner, showing Stormbringer truly was an honourable and humble dragon.

### Axel Finke

*"Look Leyla, I don't want to be near you, or the Rescue Riders, any more than you want to be near me, but your my best hope of saving Storm. Storm might not be one of your dragon friends, but she is my everything. She accepts me, loves me, like nobody else in my life ever has and I will never abandon her.*
- Axel and Stormbringer's relationship
Axel initially did not want anything to do with Stormbringer, but he could not help coming back to see her and did everything to keep her a secret from Magnus and the Rescue Riders (the latter of whom he feared would take her away). When Magnus, in a fury, made to beat Axel with a stick, however, Stormbringer leapt to his add, attacking Magnus and flying Axel to safety. She remained protective of her rider and showed a willingness to attack even her fellow dragons when Leyla and Dak attempted to speak to him, growling protectively until Axel told her to stop so he and Leyla alone could talk. She and Axel later left Huttsgalor.

Stormbringer was utterly devoted to her rider and, despite showing some reservations towards the Dragon Lord, when Axel, lured in by the thought of a place to belong, joined the Dragon Lord, Stormbringer followed him through the magical ring of flames without hesitation, though it was she who later convinced Axel to turn against their master.

Axel cares deeply for Stormbringer and is even willing to cooperate with the Riders (or to be more specific, Leyla) to save her from pirates.

Stormbringer and SpikeAxel and Stormbringer camping out on in a snowStormbringer rising from the seaAxel and Stormbringer join the Dragon Lord, despite Leyla's protestsAxel riding Stormbringer into the fray of conflictAxel and Stormbringer forevermore