The Power of Two

The Power of Two is an upcoming animated action-adventure fantasy film based on the original fiction of the same name.

Synopsis
The Power of Two tells the story of Maximus Kohlberg, an ordinary young boy who discovers a dragon's egg in his backyard one night, and it hatches into a water dragon that he names Zahira. As the two of them grow up, they learn to love each other like family. However, when another dragon and its rider attack Max's home one day, he discovers that he's destined to become a dragon rider and soon finds himself training to lead a resistance whose mission is to overthrow Damascus, the Divine Dragon of Darkness and restore the Aesir Order.

Plot
The film begins in a destroyed sacred temple where a light dragon is lying on the ground mortally wounded while a dark dragon stands over her. The light dragon, the Divine Dragon of Light named Sheria, asks the dark dragon why he did this, and the Divine Dragon of Darkness named Damascus answers that the Aesir Order is corrupting the world, and the only way to fix it is to destroy everything that the order stands for. Sheria asks Damascus if he realizes what he's really doing, which is taking thousands of innocent lives and destroying the knowledge of hundreds of worlds and then asks about the Elemental Dragons. With a claw at Sheria's throat, Damascus tells her that he'll take the descendants of the four Elemental Dragons under his command and then rule Aesir. Sheria tells Damascus that one of the Divine Dragons can't rule without the other, as that's how the Order collapses, and he scoffs at her beliefs and says that she clearly hasn't been doing her job before slitting the light dragon's throat and leaving her to die.

Two months later, a dragon rider named Xandir and his dragon, the Elemental water dragon Azura, are heading to a place called Mirage Aisle in order to raise the next water dragon in a safe place, away from the clutches of Damascus and camp at a cave for the night. However, they're forced to run when they're found by the Fire and Earth riders and their dragons who soon give chase to them. Realizing that they're not going to make it to Mirage Aisle, Xander uses a teleportation spell to send the egg to a different world where he hopes that it will be raised in a safe home before getting confronted by the two corrupted riders. Xander and Azura try to fight them off to escape, but are stopped when the Wind rider Kiari and her dragon Shira arrive to finish the two fugitives off. Realizing that they have no chance of escaping, Xander and Azura accept their fate, their last thoughts being the egg that they sent to someplace where they hope will be raised with great care.

The egg travels through infinite time and space, passing by many different dimensions until it eventually lands in the middle of a backyard in a suburban neighborhood in the middle of the night. A young three-year-old boy named Maximus Kohlberg discovers the egg and brings it inside, hoping to have it for breakfast in the morning. The next morning, he wakes up and tries to show the egg to his mother Avery, who is busy making pancakes. When Max mentions the possibility of it being a mutant alien chicken that wants to take over the world, Avery suggests that he should go stop it from invading, thinking that he's just making things up. And so, he proceeds to play around with the egg until his mother calls him for breakfast, and just as he leaves the room, the egg begins to move a little.

When Max returns to his room, he finds it a complete mess and broken eggshells are scattered on the floor. Realizing that the egg has hatched and whatever was inside it is now somewhere in his room, he begins to panic until he hears a thump under his bed. Max crawls over to see what it could be and sees a pair of eyes staring right at him, and he begs for his life, thinking that it's the scary monster that lives under his bed. However, he discovers that the monster is actually a dragon, and the curious little creature begins to develop a bond with him. After a day of feeding, reading comics, and having an experience in the bathroom with the dragon (and also discovering it to be female), Max names the little creature Zahira, after a dragon in a book. At dinner time, Max asks Avery if dragons are real, to which she answers that dragons are nothing but mythical beings. He then asks why he can't learn about dragons in school, and she tells him that she can take him to the library tomorrow after church.

The next day, Avery takes Max to the library where he hopes to find some books on how to raise dragons. However, he has no luck finding any as he is told by a woman that dragons aren't real and if one really did exist, then the government would be locking it up and torturing it or experimenting on it to turn it into a weapon of war, which creates great fear in Max for Zahira's safety as he brought her to the library in his backpack. He looks into his backpack and finds that the dragon managed to sneak out when he wasn't looking and he quickly looks for her, fearing the worst would happen if someone were to find her. Max looks around the shelves until he bumps into a teenager who isn't happy about having a kid bump into him and proceeds to tease him about his father after he mentions the short life that he had. Zahira is walking on a bookshelf when she sees a teenager teasing Max while he begs for the bully to stop, and knowing that she has to do something, she jumps onto the teen's face and begins to bite and scratch him with her developing teeth and claws, which causes quite a commotion that they are barely able to get out of without getting caught. When they return home, Max scolds Zahira for getting out of the backpack when she was supposed to stay in there, and when he sees how guilty she is, he tells her that he was very concerned about her and now knows that he has to keep her hidden. He decides to move down to the basement, and when he empties a box for her to stay in, Zahira says her first word, which is his name.

Seven years later, Max, now in the fifth grade, is walking home from school for the weekend with his best friend Tyson Emmerson. When Ty suggests that they work on a school project at Max's house, he tells him that they can't since there's a dragon living in his house, and he proceeds to tell his friend the story about how he found an egg and raised a dragon in secret ever since he was three, and Ty doesn't believe him, so he decides that he'll just show him to prove it. When the two arrive at Max's house, while Avery leaves the house for a few minutes, Max takes them down to the basement where Ty meets Zahira. Ty is in absolute disbelief that there really is a real life dragon and wonders what people think when they find that a mythical creature really exists. Max begs him not to tell anyone about Zahira, as he fears about what would happen if anyone were to discover her, and says that she's not just any dragon and is like a sister to him, which is what gets Ty to promise to his friend that he won't tell anyone.

Later that night, the two are hanging out in the basement with Zahira, and she tells Max that she has to live outside as she feels that she's getting to big for the basement, and he tells her that they'll find a place her outside where no one can find her. Zahira laments about how she wishes that she wasn't a dragon so that she could hang out with Max and his friends without having to hide herself from the world, and he says that he has to keep her hidden as the last thing he wants is to lose her.

The next day, the two go on the computer to try to find a new home for Zahira. They eventually find a secluded area in the forest that has a large lake and a cave. Max then comes up with a way to get her there, and it involves them sneaking out of their houses late at night while their parents are asleep and riding their bikes to the place. On the way there, Zahira flies for the first time as she rescues the two from going down a really steep hill on their bikes and they soon arrive at her new home. Thinking that it's the perfect place, Zahira thanks Max and Ty for bringing her here and they say goodnight to her before heading back home.

Cast

 * Tom Holland as Maximus "Max" Kohlberg, a sixteen-year-old boy from Lexington, South Carolina.
 * Matt Hill as ten/eleven-year-old Maximus Kohlberg.
 * E.G. Daily as three-year-old Maximus Kohlberg.
 * Rachel Weisz as Zahira, a water dragon who is the next Elemental Water Dragon in the Aesir Order.
 * Tim Allen as Xiromander "Xiro", a dragon rider. He is the younger brother of Xandir, the previous Water Dragon Rider, and he's determined to train Max to follow in his brother's footsteps and succeed in the mission that he attempted and failed to complete.
 * Cam Clarke as Flamemonger, Xiro's dragon partner.
 * Mark Hamill as Lionel, the chief of the Draconian resistance.
 * S. Scott Bullock as Damascus, the Divine Dragon of Darkness and the main antagonist of the film.
 * Jaden Smith as Tyson "Ty" Emmerson, Max's best friend.
 * Emma Watson as Eva Goldman, the daughter of a rich family and Max's love interest.
 * TBA as Avery Kohlberg, Max's mother.

Soundtrack
The soundtrack to the film will be released in 2020.
 * 1) The Power of One- Donna Summer
 * 2) I Turn to You- Christina Aguilera
 * 3) Spread Your Wings- Queen
 * 4) Deep Deep Water- SHeDAISY
 * 5) Heaven- Bryan Adams
 * 6) Seasons in the Sun- Westlife
 * 7) I Don't Want to Miss a Thing- Aerosmith
 * 8) Rock With You- Michael Jackson
 * 9) Be Brave- Owl City
 * 10) One- Denisse Lara
 * 11) Can You Feel the Love Tonight- Elton John
 * 12) Flying Without Wings- Ruben Studdard
 * 13) Song of the Aqua Dragon- Score