in this book, warbler (the island of silence) and the island of fire forge an alliance in order to destroy artime. meanwhile, on artime/quill, quill has been obliterated by the fireballsฝ that gondoleery rattrap created. artime expands its magical boundaries to encompass the rest of the island in order to restore quill. a traveller from the island of legends informs artime that the island crab karkinos, who is the island of legends, is on the verge of death and is drifting towards the waterfall. henry haluki takes the seaweed from the island of shipwrecks, which if consumed grants immortality, to the giant crab. karkinos regains his strength and is able to muster the strength to back up to his original position. meanwhile, alex visits the island of dragons with the dragon pan. pan flies him over the colossal crystal wall surrounding the island and alex discovers that behind the crystal wall is pan's five children. pan hid her children to protect them from the pirates, who capture sea creatures and cage them. alex returns to artime to craft wings for the five dragons and he returns to the island to attach them to their intended hosts. some time later, warbler and the pirates launch their attack on artime. at the end of the war, alex's left arm is damaged beyond repair (and since he is left-handed) he cannot do magic anymore. however, he remains head mage of artime. lani's legs become immobile, and so aaron designs her a machine to help her walk and she quickly gets used to it.