Dragon's Gold - Piers Anthony

GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES The Prophecy A Roundear there Shall Surely be Born to be Strong, Raised to be Free Fighting Dragons in his Youth Leading Armies, Nothing Loth Ridding his Country of a Sore Joining Two, then uniting Four Until from Seven there be One Only then will his Task be Done When Kelvin was a child, his mother read to him from the Book of Prophecy and he asked what its cryptic message meant. Now he was about to learn. The Kingdom of Rud languishes under the heel of a usurper; an evil sorcerer has taken the throne in the name of his wicked daughter. Even deep in the forest, away from all power, the people tremble and await the day of the prophecy's fulfillment. It cannot come too soon for Charlain and her children are soon to lose their home to the tax collector. But Kelvin and his sister Jon have other plans. They have discovered a dragon's territory, where scales of purest gold, shed by the dragon, lie free on the ground for anyone with courage, stupidity, or innocence to take. And the words of Mouvar the prophet echo across the land...