Dragon Rider (DragonMage Saga) (15 page)

‘No there is a way if it works
and it could be dangerous for us at the same time.’ Angel had them all looking
at him.

‘Go on we need to know what your
idea is?’ Shylyn looked around at the others.

‘We ask the renegades dragon to
give us a warning when they are coming.’ He looked into their surprised faces
as he told them.

‘How do we ask a dragon who hates
wizards and is being held with magic spells to help another wizard?’ Medwin
spoke the question that the others where wanting to ask.

‘We tell the dragon if he helps
us we will do all in our power to free him as soon as we are able to. We can
work at freeing the spell you all saw the spell; we can go to the library and
look it up. It’s our best hope of being able to spend the time with our dragons
and get back to school in plenty of time to stop Gavrie getting suspicious?’
Angel had them all thinking on the idea.

‘Let’s sleep on it and see if
anyone can come up with anything else that might help?’ Medwin headed off to
bed.

The rest of them nodded and did
the same except Angel he went over to the window and sat looking out to sea. In
his mind he was thinking on what he had suggested when Aura come into his
thoughts. ‘It’s a good idea and from what we think, is the only way to get back
in time and spend time with us.’

‘I’m glad you think so, it will
be tricky to try and persuade the dragon to do this for us. What if we can’t
free the dragon then we will have got its hopes up for nothing?’ It pained him
to think he couldn’t help the dragon and it thinking he lied just to get help.

‘It’s a chance the dragon will
take, for if I was him I would do it just for that one chance of freedom. Come
now you need sleep for tomorrow I think you will find the others will all agree
that it’s the only way. Goodnight Angel?’ Aura left him to think on what she
had said.

‘Goodnight Aura it will let me
sleep easier.’ Angel got up and went to bed thinking she will be right.

Angel awoke in the morning to
Gavrie standing down in their common room waiting for them. Medwin was already
there sitting having a drink. Gavrie had brought them their breakfast so they
did not have to go down stairs. He could tell this was about them getting to
meals late so they were going to have to be on there guard.

When they were all seated and
eating with Gavrie joining them there was not a word being spoken. Gavrie
looked at them one by one till he was back looking at Angel. ‘Do you want to
tell me why you have been late for meals the last couple of days?’

Angel looked at the others and
then back at Gavrie, he was going to have to make this sound very convincing.
‘We have been doing the exercise of clearing our magic paths. The magic it
feels so good, we forget and we all do it because we’re sure we can come out of
it on time. We don’t want to lose that feeling so we haven’t had anybody
looking to keep the time for us.’

Gavrie looked at them all and
could see a guilty look on their faces whether it was feeling guilty for that
reason or another, he was not sure but he could see with him coming to them
about his feelings and what he has noticed has made them think about what they
do.

‘Ok, but if you come late one
more time I will have another wizard do it for you I can’t have you being late
for meals they are very important at your age so this will be a warning.’ The
look on his face told them, he meant it.

‘We won’t miss any more meals and
will be there on time every day. We know it is important as when we do get back
and start eating, we eat as though we are starving.’ Angel looking guilty and
trying to look away.

They all had guilty looks on
their faces and so Gavrie got up and walked to the door, but turned as he had
his hand on the handle. ‘Today and for the next four you will be in the
library, the wizard there will be showing you how to find books on spells.’

*

After closing the door he stood
there thinking. They are hiding something so I’m going to have to keep a close
eye on them from now on. There is something important about the four, as they
are unusual in they work together, Unheard of.

Wizards are normally loners and will
not work their magic together, as they like to be the best and that means
keeping their spells to themselves. The only time they come together is to
teach the young wizards to create spells. The other times, if they are attacked
they will come and fight together but still not reveal the spell.

At the school the teachers don’t
mind if students go off alone to learn their magic, it has always been like
that. Wizards are very individualistic and will go out of their way to protect
their magic. Once they leave the school after learning all they can they find
their own secret place to store and work their magic. Their secret place is
well hidden and protected by strong spells.

They may be very individualistic
but they will defend each other very strongly if attacked. With Angel and his
friends being together this is very unusual and is the reason Gavrie is keeping
an eye on them. He will see once they start to really learn how to do magic if
they will still want to learn together.

*

Finishing their breakfast they
headed off to the library to see who was there to show them what to do. They
arrived at the library but there was no one there so decided to look for books
themselves. They knew they needed to look for spells of defence and attack.

‘The best way to do this is I
think by starting at the first book and then working through them from there.
If we get the first four books and then see what that will show us?’ Angel was
walking over to get the first book as he spoke.

They all followed and were soon
sitting down at a table looking to see what was there. They were all in the A’s
books and it took them all morning going through the four books. They knew this
was going to be a long job and a tiring one at that. They finished the first
books and headed down for a meal and then get to their dragons. They would
discuss the books when they are alone with their dragons and see if there was
anything in them that might help.

Taking some food with them they
headed over to there favourite corner which is a fair distance from the main
entrance into the school. The dragon deck being very large was meant to hold
three to four dragons landing at a time.

Angel and his friends had gone
through the door when it was quite and no one watching. They moved through the
decks very quickly stopping just for a short time at the place the spell had
been weakened. Finding it fine they quickly moved to the last deck where their
dragons were waiting for them.

Giving them a good welcome they
sat down at the edge of the deck and talked. ‘Medwin, you Shylyn and Maive will
have to go through the clearing path exercise with your dragons. You will need
to be able to do like Aura and I, use our magic together. This I feel is going
to be very important.’ Looking at them and their dragons.

‘Yes I feel it’s important as
well and we keep letting other things come in the way of doing it.’ Shylyn had
been dying to do this.

Turning to their dragons they
each started to clear the paths one at a time. Angel and Aura were going to try
other things while they cleared their magic. They started to go through looking
at each others magic to see deep down how it differed.

‘Let’s play with the fire spell
that we made bigger in class and see if we can do anything else with it?’
Getting himself in a comfortable position Angel looked into Auras eyes and
could see the anticipation of doing some magic.

‘How will we join our magic at
the start of the spell or shall I join when you have it going?’ Her mind sang
with the joy of what they were going to do.

‘I think I will get the spell
working and make it as strong and big as I can, then you join me and we will
see how much bigger it’ll get.’ Angel felt the same feelings as Aura building
up in himself. Magic was a strong feeling in him and he enjoyed it.

Sitting very still they looked at
a spot that wasn’t too far and then Angel remembering what he did the other day
formed the spell. Where they were looking a little fire appeared, Angel then
changed the spell so it would get bigger and bigger and bigger. The fire was
now a very large jet of flame going straight up into the air.

It didn’t take up a lot of room
but was concentrated into the air. ‘Aura I think that’s as big as I can make it
at the moment so join me now with your magic. I will form it around the fire
and push your magic into the fire to make it go higher.’ Angel was
concentrating on the pattern in the spell as he asked Aura to bring her magic
in.

‘I am coming in now, I will let
my magic join with yours and you can make it grow more. You have built a big
fire and have kept it to that one area, lets see how high we can go now.’ Aura
was pouring her magic into Angels as she marvelled at what they were doing.

Angel slowly directed her magic
into joining his magic letting it increase the strength of the fire pattern. In
doing this the fire, went straight up as high as the mountain, catching Angel
and Aura by surprise. They quickly realized what they had done and Angel
quickly pulled the magic from the spell. The fire dropped down to nothing in
seconds.

Realizing they may have been seen
and just hope if they had it was not the Renegade Wizard. The one thing they
don’t want to do is let him know their magic. Angel and Aura looked at each
other and the look on their faces; it was just pure surprise and joy at what
they had done.

‘We had better not do that again,
so we will have to do something smaller with more magic. Let’s see if we can do
the flying bubble but we want to put it around us and see how stable it is.
That’s if we can do it as it’s one of the hardest spells to create.’ He was now
starting to come down from the high of the spell they had just done.

‘We were going through the first
four master books in the library and they told of the flying bubble spell. I
went to that part of the library to see if the book was their and had a quick
look at the spell, I think I can do it or I will try and do it.’ Angel looking
in the same spot as before while telling Aura of the master book

‘Here goes now we form the
pattern like a ball of rope wrapping it around and around into a ball. The
hardest part is keeping gaps between each strand the same. That’s it around and
around, now Aura bring in your magic and weave it in with my magic and then we
keep going around.’ As he concentrated on the pattern something started to go
out of place and the bubble suddenly went very small very quickly till you
could no longer see it.

Angel looked at Aura with a
horrible expression on his face. ‘If we had put the bubble around us we would
have died.’

Aura spoke to him with just as
much horror in her voice. ‘It’s alright we didn’t did we. Putting the bubble
out around nothing is what any wizard would have first tried. But we do have to
be careful as that was the second spell we have tried and has gone wrong.’

‘Yes, I think for the day we will
do no more and try and see what went wrong. Tomorrow when we are in the library
I will have another look at the spell and see what it says about it.’ Angel got
up and looked at the others still doing their exercise.

Aura moved over to them. ‘I think
it might be time to bring them back as it is getting late. It would appear the
wizard is not coming to day so we will be able to give you a ride back to the
school?’

‘That will be good as those two
spells took a lot out of me how about you?’ Asking as he knelt down to Medwin
and tapping him on the shoulder.

‘I am a little tired but will be
fine. I am bigger than you and will be able to last that little longer.’ Aura
was doing what he was and stirring her sister and brothers.

They brought the others out of there
exercise and Angel and Aura told what they had been doing and what had happened
with the two spells. Looking a bit sheepish as they explained. They found the
time was getting on and they would need the dragons to give them a ride back.

They landed and jumped down and
gave their dragons a hug around the head. Aura looked at Angel before speaking.
‘I don’t like the idea of trying to get the Renegade Dragon to help us. With
all that fear and anger it releases in his mind he is a very dangerous dragon. If
he does help, you will have to be able to free him for if you don’t he will
bring the wizard to us.’

‘We will find a way to release
the dragon as soon as we see the spell and can work out how to dissolve it.’
Angel looking at the others nodding there heads in agreement.

‘Good we will see you tomorrow so
go quickly before you are missed.’ Aura and the others suddenly lifted and
dropped over the side of the deck and straight down and under.

‘Come on lets go as I am
starving?’ They headed of over to the deck door and moving through it.

Contents

Coming Together

They ran across the deck to the
door and slowly opened it a crack. They pulled up very quickly as Gavrie was
right outside the door talking to a group of students. They were going to have
to wait till they left, before even attempting to get back.

They sat down and Angel asked how
they got on with the exercises. ‘Did you get all the way down to the lowest
level you could. You have to get to the smallest that you can find?’

‘We went as far as we could go
and their magic feels different. It’s a strange feeling but nice, we feel its
right for our magic to be together.’ Shylyn looked at the others to confirm
what she had felt.

Medwin nodding. ‘Yes it feels
normal for us to use each others magic, it’s what we are here for.’ Looking
back at Angel and Shylyn.