Dragon Rider (DragonMage Saga) (12 page)

‘We are looking for anything on
legends about the school?’ Shylyn spoke before the others could as she wanted
to get to looking as quickly as possible.

They weren’t sure why they felt
like this but they did. Having now being linked to their very own dragon it had
changed them and their thinking. The yearning to know things was stronger than
before, so they needed to find out.

The wizard had thought for a bit
before talking to them. ‘Legends now, they would be in the oldest part of the
library. You will have to go way down the end as far as this hall goes and
there you will find anything if there is anything at all.’

Walking down the hall they could
see on each side of them row after row of books. The library was very big and
held hundreds of books, old and new together so there must be new items added
to the old as they find new ways of using magic.

Getting to the end they stopped
and looked at where they were to try and find what they were looking for. At
that moment their dragons were there with them and they were frightened.

‘What’s wrong?’ Angel could feel
the fear in their voices as they spoke in there minds.

‘Dragon we feel it close but it
is not like your mothers dragon. There is anger and fear, pain as well. It’s so
strong, it’s overwhelming us. We have never known such pain and anger in a
dragon before.’ Aura’s distress was trying to overwhelm Angel but he was only
just managing to block it.

The others were fighting it to as
it threatened to over power them all. It was Maive who got control of WhiteFire
and they calmed the other dragons down enough for Angel, Medwin and Shylyn to
clam their dragons down.

Angel pulled them together with
his magic. ‘All of you your exercise to clear the paths do it now as it will
calm everyone down. Now follow the magic, that’s it slowly relax and follow
deep down. Now use the magic to block out the anger and pain that is invading
your minds. That’s it good.’

There was sweat running down
their faces as they finally got control back for their dragons. They were
puzzled as to where the feelings come from as all dragons stay well clear of
the Wizard School.

‘Aura can you feel where the
feelings are coming from, how close are they to you?’ He could feel the anguish
in her.

‘It came very close then moved
away a little but is still close, strange dragon it’s feelings are so strong
that it must be in very bad pain for us to feel it.’ She had now calmed herself
enough that she could talk about it.

‘We will come to you tomorrow as
soon as we can till then stay with us in our minds till we can get to you.’
Angel tried to pass calming thoughts as he spoke with her.

The dragons settled now that they
were with their riders. They found it better than if they were standing beside
them for the mind link was stronger than two just standing next to each other.
Now they were relaxed enough they could carry on with the search. It still did
not stop them thinking of the other dragon that was close by.

They told their dragons what they
were trying do here in the library and so they split up and took separate isles.
Looking at all the books and they knew they were not going to find what they
want in one day.

Angel had been working his way
down when the wizard that had been at the door come up to him. ‘You must leave now
as it is getting late and the doors to the library will be shut. You must now
go back to your rooms.’

Angel hadn’t realized how late it
was so called to the others. Their dragons were now fine and calm which in turn
made them feel better. They got back to their common room and had a little
snack as they were hungry after the dragons shock. There common room has at all
times snack food for when using magic a wizard can get so wrapped up in what he
is doing with his magic, he needs a snack to take away the hunger.

The next morning after having a
big breakfast they headed off to class. Their dragons were still with them in
mind.

‘Are you feeling better this
morning and do you still feel the other dragon anywhere near?’ Said Angel
sitting down in the Crystal Chamber forming the circle till Gavrie comes in.

Aura and the others all said no
as the felling left after they had gone to sleep. Angel and the others could
feel it in them, the relaxed feelings so they will be alright now.

Shylyn suggested to Angel the dragons
stay with them through the lessons this morning. ‘It will be good for them and
their magic to see how our magic goes and to try it with their magic.’

‘Good idea we might be able to
see if they can use our magic and we could try theirs.’ He had a smile on his
face for this was a great idea and it would be very interesting.

Gavrie come in. ‘Good morning I
hope it finds you well and strong we will be having another look at creating a
spell. This time the spell is going to be weak and will be breaking down. So we
are going to fix it and to do that, we will need to see how the spell was
created.

The spell was the fire spell
again but this time they could see it was weak and going to go out. ‘Now you
need to look at the pattern in the spell, seeing how it was created by studying
each part of the spell. Now once you can see how the spell was created you will
be able to fix it and strengthen it.’ He walked around them as they looked deep
into the spell.

Angel was starting to see the
pattern in the spell and how it was made. Thinking that it was made weakly. He
knew he could improve it and make it far better. He looked at it and then
started to repair each strand and make it stronger. As he did this Aura was
looking at it and had the same feelings.

So she started to fix it at the
same time as Angel and so next moment they had the fire that was up to the
roof. Then there was sudden movement as they all scrambled back out of the way
of the fire. Gavrie was quick and killed the fire with a wave of his hand.

‘How did that get so high for if
you just repaired it would have only got brighter not bigger and stronger? Did
you all work on the spell together at the same time. That would be the only way
it could get that big?’ Gavrie looked shocked for that to have happened.

Angel had to think fast for him
and the others knew it had only been him and Aura who built the fire up that
big. Angel had moved to quickly for the others to do anything with the fire and
now he had to come up with something and quick. ‘We all worked on it and I
think it made it bigger. We thought you wanted all of us to work on the fire so
we did.’

Gavrie looked at them all closely
before replying. ‘I will get you to do it one at a time, as it is a bit
dangerous the way that happened with all of you working on it. So next time I
ask you to work on a spell it is to be one at a time.’

‘I think for today that will be
all as I will have to look into what happened. Now I think you can spend the
rest of the day doing your exercises and you can do some library work. Learn
how to find things in there. I will check on you in the library after lunch, I
would like a book on simple water spells and one on simple air spells so after
lunch then?’ Looking at them as he finished.

As they left Gavrie looked at
Angel, something happened with that spell he was not expecting. It wasn’t a
group spell ether so what happened. I think I’m going to have to find out, and
soon.

Angel and his little group headed
to the meal hall being very quite on the way. Medwin Maive and Shylyn knew
something happened with Angel and Aura when he worked on the spell. They could
feel it was a combined effort and not just Angel. They were worried it might
happen with one of them and they might not be able to control what happens.

Getting lunch they find a quite
table well away from any others and sit. Medwin was first to speak. ‘Angel what
happened with the spell, we could feel you working on the spell and then there
was the two of you but working as one. Then all of sudden whoosh and the flames
hit the roof.’

Angel looked at them with a
scared look on his face. ‘I don’t know one minute I was working the spell
starting to clear each part of the spell when Aura joined me. The strangest
part is when she joined me we felt as one. Our magic combined and the strength
was double what I was doing to the spell. Then whoosh it just hit the roof and
it was only a very little spell.’

Aura was still with Angel and the
other dragons were still with theirs as well. Shylyn spoke up to calm them
down. ‘It’s alright obviously we are close to our dragons and when we are
working spells it draws them in as well. The magic’s combine because we are so
close, but what it really means is that with each of us working with our
dragons our powers are double what it was before.’

‘Yes it felt strange when Aura
was right there beside me and she could see what I was trying to do and helped
me. I was trying not to use too much magic as it was a very small spell, but
Aura coming in and helping me it doubled the magic. This is unbelievable the
power we would have.’ Angel’s eyes lit up as he said this.

‘We must be careful with this for
if it got out of control, just think what could happen?’ Shylyns words sobered
them all.

Angel looked at her and the
others. ‘This is very dangerous until we can control what we do and learn more
about this we must practice only very little spells when we are joined like we
are at the moment. Till we can control our magic when combined that’s all we
can do.’

They spent the afternoon finding
how the master books worked so they could find the books Gavrie wanted. They
were not going to have time today to get to their dragons so were going to have
to stay with them in mind to reassure them. Gavrie never came to see them for
he knew it would take them all afternoon to find the books.

Coming down for breakfast, they
went over and got something to eat and went and sat in the corner where they
could talk freely. ‘We need to get to our dragons soon as we can, if they get
frightened again they might try to come and find us. Plus we need to be with
our dragons now as much as we can.’ Medwin’s had a worried look on his face for
he knew they all needed to be around their dragons as much as possible.

‘We’re going to have to get to
them today no matter what time it is. Aura what’s wrong?’ Aura had entered his
mind in a panic and he had felt the fear in her and it nearly over come him. He
looked at the others and they where experiencing the same feeling as he was.

They sat still and tried all
there calming exercises to get them to relax so they could find out what’s
wrong. All the dragons at once spoke in there minds. ‘The dragon is back and
it’s fear and anger is so powerful.’

Aura spoke. ‘Angel the hate this
dragon feels is so powerful that it is almost overpowering. We are afraid.’

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Pain Of A Dragon

The others nodded at each other
as the dragons were telling them. Angel again tried to get Aura to listen.
‘Aura I need you to calm down and let me feel what you’re feeling. We need to know
what’s happening.’ Aura finely, was starting to listen. ‘That’s it now relax
and let me feel those feelings.’

What he got was not what he
expected, it was very painful to have all the pain, hate and anger just flood
into his mind and the others. It nearly made them pass out, the strong feelings
the dragons were picking up. There was no doubt there was a dragon close by.

Angel spoke to the others. ‘Can
you feel through your dragons if the other dragon knows they are close to him?
If not we need to mask them so it doesn’t find them.’

They all nodded their heads and
spoke with their dragons, also trying to feel what the other dragon was sending
out; trying to pick up any hint it knew the others were there. Finding nothing
just the pain, fear and anger towards somebody. They got up and slowly walked
back to their rooms. There they sat by the windows and spent the night calming
and being with their dragons.

The next day found Gavrie was to
be away and they were able to have a free day. ‘Angel we can go to the dragons
and spend the day with them. If we get enough food to take with us we’ll be
able to stay late with them.’ Shylyn was already getting things ready to take
with them as she spoke.

‘Good idea, we’ll just tell the
kitchen we’re going to spend the day doing our exercises where we won’t be
disturbed. That should give us till around tea time.’ Medwin said as he packed.

Getting to the gate, they found
they had to wait a little as there were other students walking around and
talking. So they just had to sit where they usually did and wait for the right
moment. Finely they were able to go, so moving very quickly they headed through
the door off across the dragon deck.

They got half way to their
dragons when Angel pulled them up. ‘Look here where that part of the old spell
was funny. It’s now bigger and it looks weaker than the last time we came here.
Come on let’s get to our dragons and see how they are. We’ll stop on the way
back and have another look at it.’

Getting to the gate of the deck
Angel stopped and sniffed the air. The others looked at him with a funny look.
‘Can you smell it? There’s been a dragon here the scent is very strong. When
you have lived with dragons as long as me, you’ll get to know the scents. There
was or is a dragon here.’

The others stopped and looked
around with a touch of fear on their faces. ‘What do you mean a dragon still
here, but where?’ Medwin looked around as he spoke.

Angel looked around and stopped
and peered into the cave of the dragon deck and pointed to it. ‘In there is a
dragon or has been one not long ago. We need to get passed the cave. I’m not
sure if it’s there now or not, just can’t quite feel it, but the sent is very
strong. We must go past it so let’s go but stay close to me.’