Dragon Rider (DragonMage Saga) (28 page)

They finely got rid of the last
creature and headed back to the dragons Dragon deck. Arriving back they found
themselves starting to get tired and knew they would not be able to fight any
more if more creatures came. They could not risk their dragons to fly them back
so they were going to walk. They said goodbye to their dragons and started
walking back to the school deck. They came to the deck and tower where the
Renegade was working and so had to go into the cave where his dragon was held.

Then into his mind came this
voice. ‘When will you free me, when will you free me?’ The dragon sounded sad
as he said this.

Angel looked at the dragon and
walked up to it. ‘We don’t know as we have not been able to see the spell he is
using. This we must do to have any chance of freeing you. I made a promise to
you, we would free you and that we will do. We just need time to work out the
best way we can do this.’

The dragon moved his head around
and brought it to within a hears breath of Angels face. The dragon looked into
his eyes and into his mind the dragon spoke again. ‘I can tell if you lie to me
and from looking at your eyes you are telling me the truth. I will wait but
please hurry.’

Angel nodded and motioned the
others on. They headed to the edge of the cave and looked to make sure the
Renegade was no where to be seen. They went through the door into the next deck
and into the cave to keep them from sight. They got to the other side and
stopped to see how the old spell was.

They stood in front of the rock
face out of sight of the tower with the Renegade in and let their magic feel
the spell, to see the spell. With their magic the spell looked like a great
woven carpet that was hung on a wall. But this one was so fantastic that it was
hard to see the pattern.

The pattern was so fine that they
had to look closely to be able to see any sort of shape to the pattern. They
followed the pattern till it came to the area where the Renegade was working
on. This time they had to be careful they didn’t get to rapped up in spell that
it nearly took them.

They where just having a look and
wanted to see how far he had got this time. Coming to the area where the spell
had been disrupted he could see that it was small this time and so Angel had an
idea. ‘Let’s see if we can get it to heal itself so we don’t have the Renegade
out after us?’

‘Lets just try with our magic
making the spell feel good and wanting to heal itself. Just let’s try to give
it a boost of positive energy and hope it will try to heal the area. They
started to do this when they become very tired and Aura and her brothers and
sister pull them out of it before they weaken too much.

Their dragons had been with them
in their minds when they tried it. They were able to pull them free but it had
taken a lot out of them and they were now going to have to get back very
quickly before they fall asleep.

They staggered into the next deck
and across it without seeing any of the creatures in the air. They finely came
to the deck next to the schools and listened as the creatures where still
attacking the school. They opened the door and could see some of the creatures
up in the air over the school deck.

When they got the chance they
quickly ran into the cave so that the creatures would not see them. Getting to
the other side they ran to the door and slowly opened it to see if the wizard
that was on patrol would see them, but there was no sign of him.

They quickly went down to the
room and unlocked the secret door and went in and locked it behind them. They
ran to the other end of the hall and unlocked the door to their room. Once in
they locked it and stood and listened to see if they could hear anything of the
fighting. After a little they found they could not hear anything and so they
left their room and headed up stairs to where the fighting was.

They came out into the school and
now they could see the creatures attacking. Angel looked at the others and
spoke. ‘We are going to run out there with surprise on our faces and make it
look like we never knew what was happening. It’s not late so we would not have
missed our meal. So let’s go and help load the lances.

They went through the door and could
see Gavrie over with some other wizards firing spells at the creatures. Gavrie
saw them and indicated they get to the cave and help with the lances.

They ran into the cave before any
creature could try and get them, spending the rest of the time loading lances
even though they were very tired, but they were not going to show that. The
creatures finally left as it got dark, there were not many left and all over
the deck were dead creatures, lots of dead creatures.

That was going to be a big job
pushing them over the side of the deck, magic would help but it would still
take them a while. Gavrie came into the cave and over to them, looking at them
with a look that bordered on anger and worry. Angel looked at him and hung his
head a bit as he spoke. We were in our secret room and never heard anything; it
was only as we come out of the room that we got a faint nose like fighting. We
came as soon as we heard.’

This seamed to satisfy Gavrie and
he told them to go and get some food into them as all this work would have made
them hungry. They left in a hurry before he could think about them any more.

Having got a meal they sat at a
table and found themselves very tired. It took a great deal of effort to stay
and eat. After they finely finished eating they headed up to their rooms and
went straight into bed and asleep.

The next morning they were up and
ready as they felt very good with the longer sleep. Going down to breakfast
they talked on what they would do today. ‘We are going to have a look at the
old spell as soon as we can after lunch. I don’t think we did anything to help
the spell as we had to come out of it to quick.’ Angel said as they neared the
meal hall.

Medwin slowed them down as they
neared the hall. ‘Hold up a bit, are we going to see if the Renegade is still
here first before we look at the spell. If he was working on the spell
yesterday when we tried to heal it, when we were pulled out of it could he have
felt anything?’

‘Surely not we were only just
lightly feeling the spell trying to get it to heal itself, he couldn’t have
felt anything.’ Shylyn had a worried look on her face.

Maive stopped and stood in front
of them, stopping them in their tracks. ‘We have to think the worst and assume
he may have felt something. Our dragons may have picked up on something when
they pulled us out, we had better ask them and soon?’

‘We can do that while we are
eating just call them and see if they felt anything or weather the Renegades
dragon may have picked up on something if the Renegade took it out on him.’ Angel
started moving into the hall.

Getting their food and finding a
table in a corner with no other students or wizards around. They called their
dragons and waited for them. It was not long before they entered their minds.

‘What’s wrong you sound as if you
are really worried and there is a touch of fear in there as well?’ Aura was
worried as she asked about the early call.

The other dragons felt the fear
in their minds and were asking the same questions. Angel tried to reassure Aura
and getting the others to do the same. He did not want the dragons worried as
there was not a lot they can do about it.

‘We need to know if when you
pulled us out of the old spell, did you feel anything of the Renegade?’ Angel
had stopped eating as he asked.

‘We did not have time to feel if
the Renegade felt what we did or you did. We had to get you all out, as the
spell was taking all your energy. We were too worried for you to notice
anything.’ Aura’s mind had calmed down a little but there was still that little
fear there.

Angel could feel it but ignored
it as he did not want to get her upset. They still felt the fear that yesterday
they nearly lost their riders and he did not want that at all. Medwin and
Shylyn as well as Maive were feeling it in their dragons as well and not wanting
to upset them any more than Angel.

‘What about the Renegade is he
still there or has he gone. His dragon might have felt something from the
Renegade when he comes out of the tower. You know he takes it out on his dragon
when we have fixed the spell the last couple of times?’ Angel spoke hoping that
the wizard was gone.

‘We can’t feel his dragon there
and we were to tired last knight to have noticed him going. We will have to see
when he comes back, for if he did he will try and find out who is responsible.’
Aura had confided in the others as she told Angel.

Angel sat eating steering off
into the distance and his thoughts on what they could do if the Renegade felt
them. If he knew and had picked up on what happened yesterday then he would
have stayed around and worked really hard for he would have felt them leave. I
think we are safe but we will have to be very careful from now on.

They finished their breakfast and
went to the morning class, which was up in the Crystal Chamber again. This
morning they had a different wizard who looked as if he was 100 years old. He
was going to be taken the lessons for the next few days while Gavrie was away
at a meeting on the attacks.

They spent the morning going over
what they had learnt with Gavrie. The morning dragged on and on for them and
finally lunch came and they were off. They had to have lunch before they could
look at the spell so it was a fast lunch.

They went to a nice quite place
and sat looking at the rock face and just gently felt with their magic the old
spell. They were very careful as they did not want a repeat of what happened
yesterday. Angel started and the others slowly came in and lent their magic to
Angel as he and his magic was the strongest and had an affinity with the spell.

That’s what happened the time he
nearly got overwhelmed by the old spell. The magic of the spell was accepting
him and so he nearly got in thrilled by it. Now the others watch him very
closely so it won't happen again.

Angel just let his magic sense
brush lightly of the old spell. He spoke to the others as his magic touched the
spell ever so gently. ‘I will only just lightly touch the spell so keep an eye
on me and if it feels like I have gone to deep quickly pull me out. I don’t
want to lose myself like the last time.’

They reassured him as he just
lightly touched the spell. ‘I can feel it, now I will move out along the spell
till I can feel the area where the Renegade is attacking it.’ He moved along
the old spell just barely touching it and being very conscience of the spell.

He stops as a thought comes to
him. ‘Why is the old spell not affecting the Renegade, he is still putting a
magic spell into the old spell but it is not affecting him like it did for me?’

The others couldn’t think of any
reason why it wouldn’t. They just kept feeding him their magic as he needed it.
Angel started moving along the spell again still wondering why. He will try and
find out one day but for now he returned his thoughts to the job at hand.

‘I can feel the spot coming; here
you feel it, see it in your mind?’ They all came into his mind as he showed
them. Their dragons were there with them all the way but ready at a moments
notice to pull them out.

They could feel where the
Renegade had been attacking the spell and could see it was an area of about two
hand spans in diameter. ‘Can you see the edge of it, now look closer but don’t
touch the spell just use your magic to see it. Now look at it very close and
you will see a red area all the way around. I can feel the old spell fighting
what the Renegade has done.

There was excitement in his voice
and Aura could feel it in his mind as well. ‘What we did the other night even
though we were pulled out of it very quickly we taught the old spell how to
fight what is happening.’

Medwin speaking softly. ‘Can we
carry on and help it a bit more, what if we work the spell that fixed it last
time. Would that help it fight it faster and repair it quicker?’ He was shocked
as the others were as they had only just been in for a short time before being
pulled out.

The little they did has done a
lot, for such an old spell to change because of what they have done is
something. It also shows the old spell holding the school to the face of the
mountain was learning something. They were starting to think maybe the old
spell is alive for it to change.

What they had not thought about
was just maybe they were changing the spell itself as they tried to fix it each
time. They were learning old magic and thinking it was their own knew magic
blending in, it was in fact them understanding old magic and how it was
created.

They were going to have to think
long and hard as to what is happening with the spell and Angel knew that. ‘I
think we had better leave it as it is and keep an eye on what is happening with
the spell. There is a lot we don’t know about magic and at the moment the old
spell is fighting what the Renegade is doing to it. I think we will come and
see what it is like tomorrow.’

They came out of the magic sense
and got up and moved around to loosen sore legs from sitting. Deciding they
will try the library, as they should be allowed back there again. We’ll see if
they can find more on the Renegades and see if there is much on portals and how
long they can last.

They go via the meal hall and
grab something to eat to take up with them. They feel they are eating more now
than they have ever eaten in their lives. They put it down to the magic and
what it does to them. So they like to have food around in case they need it.

Grabbing a large basket they fill
it with bread and cheese and some meats as well as drink. Having loaded up they
go up to the library and proceed to find an area where they can set up for
books. Angel was sitting eating when a thought comes to him. ‘What about also
looking for anything on old magic and any spells that might be old?’