"Magic shinies that protect you while you get more shinies. You spend a couple of the lesser shinies to get the magic shinies, which you wear while getting more. It keeps them from hurting you."<br/><br/>He smiled at the little dragon, and reached over to scratch where their head and neck met. "Trust me, it will be better for you this way. Less people trying to hurt you. And you can be just as feared at the same time. We blues have been doing it for ages, and yet all the stories about dragon slayers are about reds, blacks, greens or whites. Very rarely are there ones about blues, unless it is one of the crazy ones even we disown."