Anyway, details:
We see a happy family, father mother and daughter, when some soldiers come asking for his taxes. He says that they’re stealing them, and that he’ll personally pay his taxes to the Lord in person. They are to be arrested because of this, and they fight, until the little girl screams and her parents stop fighting because worried about her: ‘ok but don’t hurt her’. Children can be put to work in the mines so they go after her too. Mom screams “run!” and she does but then falls down. The soldiers see some dragon eggs, much more valuable, and want to take them too. They steal the eggs, making one dragon very angry. The dragons kills everyone but the little girl and the two bad soldiers.
We move to ‘six years later’. The little girl Ayden lives in a village, in a home for orphans, and her arm hurts every time a dragon approaches . She speaks to the other children about Christmas and making a wish, but Rosalynne says she’s being cruel to lift their hopes up.
While outside, a strange man tells her that the magic is gone. He’s actually an elf and he tells her that a magic stone led him to her and he gives her the stone telling her to follow it, to find the magic and save Christmas. Without the stone he turns immediately dark and she runs away.
She explains it all to the other children, and some of them agree to help her. Early next morning they try to sneak out. Garrett stays behind because he won’t go without Rosalynne, but when the bad soldiers come Rosalynne joins the others, saying that Garrett won’t come and nothing’s alright now.
When the boys try to fish they are attacked by some kind of water dragon and they lose the boat. The elf called that stone a compass, and it shines when pointed the right way. They go to a tavern where Ayden recognizes the bad soldiers so they try to escape. One grabs Ayden but Rosalynne helps her. A thief takes the stone and when he does it shines. Ayden frees him and he goes with them. Finally Rosalynne tells them that as orphans become of age they are sent to work, and she’s supposed to go to the mines. The thief is called Airk, according to the credits, but I always understood Erik. Anyway.
The stone led them to Airk, he knows where the magic is. The magic comes from a crystal orb but now an ogre has it. They find the ogre, lure him out and go grab the orb, and then they run. Two days to get the orb to Father Christmas. He can lead them to the North border, Airk says.
When a young dragon is shot down by bandits, two of the children want to help it. They pretend to be goblins to scare the bandits away :-/ and they set traps, unleash bees, and generally try to send them away. Ayden stayed behind with the dragon, and when the bandit leader and three of his men find her, she’s helped by a warrior girl with a sparkling stone. Saerwen knows Airk and we learn that the orb controls time and Airk wanted to try bring back time to save his mother and so he stole the orb.
The dragon is a she and Ayden tries to cure her wings and then tell her to stay and rest and they go.
They go north but are attacked by goblins - elves gone dark because the magic’s gone - and the children as well as Rosalynne have to actually save the others...
The dark woods weaken Saerwen but luckily the dragon comes to help them. Still, Saerwen’s weakening too much and Airk uses the orb and this time it works for him and she feels better.
It’s Christmas eve, Rosalynne and Ayden ride the dragon. Ayden says “follow us”... really? :-/
They get to Father Christmas: without the orb he aged a lot and is now very very old, and won’t even wake up. They say that their wishes coming true was actual magic (like, having a family, not going to the mines, that sort of stuff), so it’s not gone yet. They use the dragon to lead the sleigh and they stop at their own town and deliver gifts using Father Christmas list; some are left out of the door and some are left inside, for some reason, and they even go to the orphanage, but people see the dragon and want to kill it.
Two children and Rosalynne are taken by the bad soldiers, but she manages to ring the bell so all children wake up and find their gifts (some of them outside the door, and why would they think of opening the door in the middle of the night I really don’t know..)
The bad soldier n.1, the woman, shoots the dragon but Ayden tries to put herself in the way to protect it, but Father Christmas slows time down enough to save her. He banishes the bad soldiers - ta very much says the rest of the world - and the children go live with him. Ayden, Rosalynne, and Garrett too. Saerwen marries Airk and it’s the end.
Rosalynne-Paris Warner
Saerwen-Melanie Stone
Father Christmas-Adam Johnson
Garrett-Talon Ackerman
Airk-Jake Stormoen
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