The moment Moss crossed the border, someone thwacked him in the head. He fell down, dazed. A very large black dragon picked him up as if it was no problem. "If you scream for help," the dragon growled, a deep menacing sound. "I will slit your throat." Moss gulped and stayed quiet. He was shoved into a dark, dank hole that was obviously being guarded. "Your friends are going to come get you," the guard told him. "And when they do, we'll capture them and our leader will decide what to do with them." He laughed evilly. Moss felt sick. He knew that "leader" was Bluedancer and she probably wouldn't be willing to just let him go. Moss desperately kept thinking, Don't come! If you guys come, we're all dead. Don't come! But right then, he wanted nothing more than for his friends to come.

"Where's Moss?" Ripple asked as he bit into a frozen fish. Cobra shrugged. "I told him specifically not to cross the Great Ice Cliff, but I bet he didn't listen." Spark looked over a ridge a couple yards away and froze. "I can see a very big camp, full of NightWings," he reported. "There's a pit on the outskirts. That might be where Moss is." Everyone was alerted of the problem. "What's going on," Peacemaker mumbled. "Nothing," Hope replied quickly. "Nothing that you should worry about." "We need a plan," Cobra said when they were all gathered and Peacemaker was fast asleep. "How do we get him out?" Mango muttered. "We'd need bait," Spark suggested. "At least two dragons." He shot a meaningful glance at Ripple. Ripple nodded back. "Well, who's actually going to get Moss out?" Vortex demanded. Everyone turned to Mango. "I could go with her," Vortex offered. "I'll just be another lump of snow." "What do we do?" Hope and Cobra asked. "You guys could get Bluedancer out of the way," Ripple suggested. "She knows the most about all of us and getting that out would be really nice." Cobra and Hope agreed. The plan was finalized, Ripple and Spark practiced their maneuvers out of sight of the NightWings, and Mango worked on her camouflage. The next day, they were all ready to go.