Dragon Rider (DragonMage Saga) (18 page)

‘Good Angel now I want you others
to try and match Angels or better it. So let’s see you fire your bolts?’ Going
to the window, he looked to see where they landed.

The others fired theirs and
watched them fly and land close to Angels. The water was already boiling from
Angels as the spell was still active. Gavrie was impressed but was not going to
say just yet. He wanted to send his to that point so got his spell cast and
went to the window as well.

‘Ok I will send mine to join
yours so let’s go’ He sent his arm back and then pulled through and released
the bolt where it landed close.

Gavrie looked for a short time
and then dismissed the class. Angel looked at him and was going to ask Gavrie a
question but looking at Gavrie, thought he would leave it for now. They left
and headed for the library as they had been released well before time. They did
have spells to look at.

*

In the mean time Gavrie looked
out to sea where the lightning bolts landed. They were still fizzing away as
the water was still boiling.

His one had stopped almost as
soon as it had hit the water, but not Angel and his friends. They have very
strong magic and the more they learn the stronger they will get. Even Angel’s
father was never this strong when he first learnt magic.

The other threes power is very
good, but I think Angel has brought them ahead more than what they have learned
here in class. Why is Angel’s magic stronger than his father when his mother is
only a Dragon Rider, but she is the most powerful Dragon Rider? There is the
fact she can control a black dragon and the only black dragon there is.

I would say Angel has inherited
his fathers’ strong magic and his mothers’ strength and control. I am going to
have to keep a close eye on them when in there own time. I lost them the other
day somewhere. They have found a place where no one can find them so tomorrow
after there lesson I will go to my room and watch from the window.

*

Angel, Medwin, Shylyn and Maive
had gone to the kitchens for some food then off up to the library where they
will carry on looking for some way of freeing the dragon. Entering the library
they find no one there, so go straight to the section they were at yesterday.

They poured through all the books
in that section but were unable to find anything on binding a dragon. They were
about to go to another section when the wizard who looks after the library came
in. Angel had an idea and talked it over with the others. ‘I can’t ask out
right about binding a dragon for fear of letting them think we might want to do
it. So let's get into a little discussion about it, draw him into the
conversation?’

As the wizard came near Angel
started the argument. ‘It’s just not possible to do that as there wouldn’t be a
spell capable of doing it.’

‘It’s possible I tell you,’
getting louder as the wizard draws near, ‘It would be easy to bind the little
fire lizards to stop them.’ Medwin looked at the wizard as he slowly
approached.

Angel could see he had looked at
them and winked at Shylyn to start. ‘You’re wrong there is no way you can bind
a dragon let a lone a fire lizard there would be no spell capable of doing it.’
Shylyn could see he had heard enough and was now walking over to them.

The wizard was very old and
looked as if he had been here in the library all his life. He was very white skinned
and his hair and beard were pure white. The hands were just about claws, with
the nails needing to be cut. His hands and around the eyes were very wrinkled.

He stood in front of all four and
demanded what they were doing yelling in his library. ‘This is a silent place
where you can study in peace but with you lot arguing no one is going to want
to come in here. Now what’s going on?’

Maive now played her part in
their little plan. ‘They are arguing about binding fire lizards and said you
couldn’t even a dragon you couldn’t. They just wandered why no one had bound a
fire lizard to have as a pet?’ Maive gave him a look of annoyance at them
arguing.

‘Can’t happen and no good wizard
would try it anyway. There is no spell to do that and if there was, a wizard
would never do it. They would never bind a fire lizard against its will for it
is a cousin to the dragons and a wizard would never hurt a dragon. So there is
no binding spell. He gave them a disgusted look as he turned to go.

He had just started to walk away
when he turned back to them. ‘Down that isle, you will find a book on legends,
it’s called Dragon Lore.’ He then turned away and headed off.

The four were moving down to the
isle mentioned as the wizard had turned his back. They went about half way down
before finding the book and taking it back to a table to look at.

Angel opened the book and they
all crowded around it. They slowly looked through it till near the end where
they come across a brief reference to a wizard who had bound a dragon. They found
it got only a few lines on the legend. Angel looked at them and then read.

‘The Wizard Umos was reported to
have bound a dragon and the only way they were able to free the dragon was to
kill the wizard. They could find no spell that was powerful enough to do this.
It is told the bonding went deep to hold the dragon. To stop it trying to kill
itself the wizard would put chains around it and anchor it to the ground. The
dragon would rather die than stay bound.’

Angel finished reading and looked
at the others before he could speak. ‘The dragon wants to be freed so it can
kill itself to break the bond. We can’t let this happen?’

Medwin looked at the others as
his face turned white. ‘We must destroy the wizard to free the dragon?’

‘The dragon knew there was no way
to get free of the bond apart from killing itself. So when you offered to free
its bonds so it could get free, it was the chance for it to be able to do
this.’ Shylyn looked shaken as she spoke to them.

Maive broke in. ‘There has to be
another way for if we break the chain, that’s if we could find a spell to do
it, the dragon would just go and kill itself. We can’t do it what is worse
being bound or dead?’ She just couldn’t bear to think of which would be worse.

Angel looked at them and got up
and walked around the table. He couldn’t let it stay the way it was and he
would not release it just so it could go out and kill itself. There has got to
be away of working around it.

There was silence in the library
as they thought of some way they could save the dragon. Then into Angels head
come Aura and the others had their dragons also turn up. They could feel the
pain of what they had discovered.

The dragons showed how it
distressed them the thought that a dragon would go and kill itself to break the
bond.

‘There is only one way to free
the dragon and that is to destroy the wizard so we must come up with a way to
do this without us getting killed. But we are going to have to tell the dragon;
we will not try and break the chains as we will not let it destroy itself. We
will tell it that we are going to destroy the wizard to save it and us at the
same time.’ Angel looked at them knowing what he said, they would agree.

They headed out of the library to
go and see their dragons when there came a yell of dragons. Angel looked at the
others and yelled, ‘Mums here,’ and ran down to the main entrance over looking
the dragon deck.

Just coming into land was his
mother by herself. Angel was about to run to her when there came a shout,
‘Attack we’re being attacked,’ he looked at his friends and they booted it to
the door to see what was happening.

There in the sky not far away was
a group of creatures coming. The headmaster yelled to all the first year
students to get inside and stay there. Then heading out to join Tish, Gavrie
and the other wizard teachers and the older students prepared to fight the
creatures that were almost on them.

Tish got back on NightWing and
leapt into the air in one fluid motion. As they climbed to meet the creatures
Tish had her dragon lance out and was firing. There were about fifty of the
creatures and they were starting to spread out. They would have been a bit
smaller than Aura and her brothers and sister.

They were not all the same, as
some of them seemed to swim through the air where others flapped wings. The
only thing they had in common was they looked the foulest things ever born.
Some of them could breathe fire while others just had really long claws and
just came at the wizards.

Tish was getting a lot of them as
the wizards started to fire their spells of lightning bolts and balls of fire.
Some used spells Angel and his friends had never seen before. The creatures
were now starting to thin as the wizards and Tish destroyed them.

Aura come into Angels head as he
was watching what was happening. ‘Are you alright we felt feelings you are
having and got worried about you. What is happening we hear and sense there are
strange creatures around? We sense their evil and we worry for you all?’

‘It’s alright the wizards and my
mother, are destroying them now as we speak. There were about fifty of them but
there’s only a few left now. It will be all back to normal soon so don’t
worry.’ Angel felt her concern ease as he explained what happened.

Angel was about to go and see his
mother as she had come on down and had landed. But a look comes over his face,
a thought that needed to be asked. ‘Aura can you feel the dragon. Is the dragon
there now or are they coming?’

‘They have just come back now as
the dragon had let us know they were coming, that’s why we are here with you
now. There is something else you need to know the dragon says there is another
wizard with this one. There are now two Renegade Wizards working on the spell.’
Aura’s feelings changed as she told him about the wizards.

Angel turned to the others. ‘Have
you heard there are now two wizards we have to face? We must go and see what is
happening if we can get away. The deck is going to be hard to cross with
NightWing there over by our door. I just hope mums not going to stay long.’

They went to see were his mother
was and found her with Gavrie just coming into the school. She looked at Angel
and gave him a smile as along with Gavrie they entered the meal hall. This
meant she was going to be here for a while so they were not going to get to their
dragons today.

Angel had a thought and called
his friends to follow him. They headed off over to the wall of the dragon cave
and Angel looked around to make sure no one was looking. There he sat down
close to the wall and indicated the others should do the same.

He explained what he was going to
do. ‘Let’s feel the spell from here and see if the spell has been tampered
with.’

They each put their hands to the
spell and let their magic see the spell and feel along it. They each tried but were
not able to feel if the spell had been tampered with. Angel turned and looked
at them. He could feel the spell but was not quite able to get the feel of it
at a distance.

‘Come on let’s hold hands and
call your dragons in to this as we’re going to need them as well. Now when we
are all here and I can feel each other send the magic to me and I will see if I
can feel anything. Right here we go.’ Angel let his magic flow through himself,
and then drew on the others magic one by one.

As he drew their magic to him he
let his awareness of the old spell flow along it. As he travelled along the
spell he marvelled at the complexity of the spell. It would have taken a lot of
wizards to create this spell for it to last so long.

As he travelled the spell getting
the feel of how the spell could have been put together, he was struggling with
the enormity of such a spell. He felt as if he was going to get lost and
started to panic when Aura was there beside him. He could feel her presence and
started to relax.

The spell he could feel was right
that’s all he could say it felt right, this feeling carried on as he travelled
along past each deck slowly. Then he came to the area that had been attacked by
the renegade and found there was a difference in that little spot. He could
feel were his group had fixed it or enhanced the spell to fix itself, that’s
what he felt, they helped it fix itself.

As he looked at what they had
done he could feel there was a slight difference as his and Auras magic was
different to the old spell. It still helped it but the difference was still
there in the spell at that point. Just as he was about to move along, there was
a sudden collapse at that point and Angel could tell, that what he and the
others had done to heal the spell had just been undone.

Angel suddenly collapsed as he
comes out of the magic. The others were there very quickly and brought him
around. Shylyn helped him to stand. ‘What happened we could feel you through
our magic but not what you could see?’

Angel just shivered and looked at
them with a blank look on his face. Maive quickly got them moving talking as
they went. ‘We must get him back to our room and let him come out of it slowly.
It looks as if he got a shock and was pushed out of the spell; Aura is in the
same way so we are going to have to see what happens.’

They started back to the school
when Gavrie come out the door and saw them coming. As they approached where
Gavrie was standing he looked at them and could see the blank look in Angel’s
eyes. He went into immediate action and picked Angel up and told the others to
follow.

Following Gavrie as he flew
through the halls heading to a part of the school where they had not been
before. He stopped at a door and pushed it open and was through before they
could see in. As they come to the door and walked in they could see it was a
room for sick wizards.

Gavrie had Angel laying on a bed
with another wizard standing over him and looking into his eyes. The wizard
looked back at Gavrie and spoke quietly to him, then turned back to Angel.
Gavrie spoke back to the other wizard before coming over to them.