Omega Dragon by Bryan Davis

Book 4 of Children of the Bard

Summary:

Matt Bannister carries the corpse of his twin sister, Lauren, into Abaddon's lair, the wellspring of resurrection power. Along with Listener, he hopes to solve the mystery of this sacred chamber and restore Lauren's life. When he reads from Abaddon's secret resurrection book, disaster strikes, and he and Listener are forced to seek a different path where they are faced with another catastrophe--an ice storm laced with a villain's potion that threatens to kill every inhabitant of Second Eden.

In the meantime, Marilyn Bannister seeks a way to enter Second Eden. She must restore the great dragon Clefspeare so that he can battle Arramos, the draconic manifestation of Satan. Arramos has been capturing and killing children as a way to bring God's wrath upon the Earth, and only Clefspeare is powerful enough to stop him.

Transporting Clefspeare into Second Eden is possible, and only Sapphira Adi, the great Oracle of Fire, is able to open the secret portal to that world. While in the midst of apocalyptic destruction, Sapphira, Elam, Billy, Bonnie, Walter, and Ashley battle Arramos as he tries to thwart their plans and enter Second Eden himself. His goal? Complete annihilation of the world. 

Heroes and heroines fight evil in order to save helpless innocents from Arramos as he kills, maims, and destroys. All seems lost against this unholy terror, and their only hope is the restoration of Clefspeare, the Omega Dragon. 

Opening Lines: 

Frozen faces, pale and grim, lay sealed under a sheet of ice--lost...forlorn...without purpose.

Or so they seemed.

Standing at the edge of the reservoir, Merlin kept his stare on the nebulous faces, soulless phantasms that held no thoughts as they drifted in misty swirls under the icy surface. Mindless or not, they were a bit more animated than usual. Perhaps a newly slain martyr had recently infused a surge of energy into this sacred pool. 

He pushed the bottom end of his walking staff into the thick ice. Radiance surrounded the smooth acacia wood and rode upward until it reached a candlestone wedged within a triple fork at the top. The candlestone, a crystalline gem about the size of his thumb, absorbed the light, made it spin around its dark core, and sent it out again in a dim yellow beam parallel to the floor.