![]() "The Necromancer" - An evil necromancer who is in search of Kai and Danzi in hope to sell their body parts for gold.He is trying to perfect his shapechanging ability. He is a young dragon, recently born and lacks maturity. Long Kai Duan 龍開端 - A young purple dragon, son of Long Danzi.He is currently at the Isle of Blest but continues to guide and advise Ping through dreams. Long Danzi 龍膽子 - An old and wise green dragon, father of Kai and formerly in the care of Ping.He has developed the power to shoot flaming spit balls from his mouth and his fur and eyes have become blue. He was sent back to Ping on the back of a red phoenix by Danzi in 'Garden of the Purple Dragon'. In 'Dragon Keeper' he was fatally wounded and Ping sent him with Danzi to the Isle of Blest. She is unsure of her position as Dragon Keeper, but tries the best she can. Ping 萍 - Formerly a slave girl, around the age of twelve although she is now the Imperial Dragon Keeper of Long Kai Duan.While Jun takes his body away, Ping and Kai (Ping had let Hua go free with other rats) escape with Princess Yangxin, who asks them to go with her to the Duke's at the Kunlun Mountains, and the two agree, hoping to find a place to live in safety from the Empire. During the sacrifice, Dong Fang Suo, Jun, Hua and Kai come to her aid and they defeat the necromancer though Dong Fang Suo is sadly killed (who says it was the Emperor who ordered him and the necromancer to make the accident that almost killed Ping before he dies). She is stripped of her position as Imperial Dragonkeeper and taken off to be sacrificed. ![]() They duel and Ping, without Kai, escapes to warn the Emperor who reveals he is in league with the Necromancer. However the Necromancer is there, bleeding Kai. After staying with them for a short time, she decides to return to the palace for Kai. During the journey back to the palace, Ping is nearly killed in an accident and left for dead, but she survives and finds her real family. Ping becomes jealous when Kai seems to prefer Jun over her. But they do not find Ping's family there, instead, a boy named Jun is taken to be instructed as a Dragonkeeper. She, Kai and Dong Fang Suo (Fatso as Kai had begun to call him) go to a village in search of the next Dragon Keeper. Ping eventually convinces the Emperor to search for any other Dragon Keepers, as she hopes to find her family. Ping stays in the palace and meets Princess Yangxin and the two become friends, and the Princess begins to teach Ping how to read and write, since she is unable to do so already. After Hua uses his newfound powers to hold off the necromancer while Ping and Kai escape, Ping, Kai and Hua are later captured by guards and taken to Liu Che, Emperor of China, and Ping's 'friend' who drops all charges against them. Ping and Kai flee but they run into the necromancer. Hua also returns to Ping on a red phoenix's back. They are living happily until one day, their goat is found with its throat slit. Ping learns that Kai can shape-change and turns into firstly a soup ladle. Ping is living on the top of Tai Shan mountain trying to raise Kai, Danzi's son. It is set in ancient China, during the Han Dynasty, and continues the story of Ping, slave girl turned dragonkeeper. It is the second in the Dragonkeeper series and the predecessor to Dragon Moon. Garden of the Purple Dragon is a children's fantasy novel by Carole Wilkinson, published in September 2005 by Macmillan Publishers.
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