Dragon Rider (DragonMage Saga) (49 page)

‘Everybody to your places now and
prepare, for today will mark us as victors or just a memory. Don’t fire spells
till they are close, as you will need to conserve your magic, as today is going
to be long?’ He headed to the group he would be with, and from there he will be
able to monitor the battle.

Most of the time the spells they
use to battle creatures are the fire balls or the lighting bolts. The bolts are
very powerful and are good at long distance as the lighting is more forked at
the ends over distance. This way it gets more of the creatures.

Now any bigger spells and the
wizards need a little more time and when battling creatures this is not quick
enough. So most of the time it is lighting bolts or fire balls, and then when
the wizards’ magic starts to flag it they use the Dragon Lances. These they
charge with magic and they fire balls of fire.

For the bigger creatures that
will come this time they might have a bit more of a problem and may need to use
a more powerful spell. They will have to see when they get here. The bigger
creatures may take a little longer in getting to the top of the mountain so
they will probably be the last to get here.

Angel looked at Shylyn, Medwin
and Maive; he could see the fear in their eyes as the creatures slowly
descended. They could see it in his face as well even as he tried to hide it.
They looked around and with a bit of relief found other wizards had the same
look on their faces.

The students had the worst look
on their faces for they had never been meant to face this so soon in their
magic training. All the students were in the cave and were to stop any creatures
getting in to the wizards working on lances in the back. They were all lined up
just inside the entrance to the cave.

They all looked at each other and
the fear was very evident so Angel tried to relax them as he walked out in the
front. ‘Come on we can do this, we have the easy job not like the teachers and
wizards who have to stand out there and fight them. Our job is easy so let’s
not let them down.’

Shylyn looked at Angel and then yelled.
‘Yes we can do it, no creature is going beat us now are they.’ She looked at
them and was not getting the response she wanted so yelled again. ‘Well are we,
NO we are not.’

As she finished the second yell,
there were yells with her as they slowly started to join in. There were now
smiles on faces of the students with Shylyns yell. They were now ready for the
fight and it was now very close. The creatures were almost on them and the
groups of wizards on the roof of the school had started firing their spells at
the creatures.

They braced themselves as the air
above the school and deck were a live with creatures and their cries. The
sounds were just as unnerving as the look of them, for the scream went right
through you. It almost turned your blood to ice as the noise grew in volume as
more and more of the creatures got closer.

Some of the creatures could
breathe fire and use fire balls, where as others were very tough with poison
oozing out of pores on there hides. There were some who could create poison gas
within their bodies and blow it out through their mouths, where as some were
just plan hard armoured.

The creatures if they could get
under the wizards shields could do a lot of damage so the wizards when fighting
would group so one groups shields will just about touch with another’s. With
this happening there were hardly any gaps for creatures to get through.

‘It’s getting dark and it’s in
the morning, there are that many creatures they are blocking the suns light
from getting through. Here they come I’m going to start firing soon what do you
think Angel?’ Shylyn was keen to get going and stop this awful waiting.

Angel looked along the line of
students and could see they were getting ready to start throwing spells at the
creatures. But Angel thought it to early yet. ‘No hold your spells till they
are needed for you don’t want to use up your magic when it is not needed yet.
Wait till they come at us or if they get through a group we will be needed then
so just hold on. You will get your chance for with this many coming down; some
are going to get through.’

Shylyn looked at him and she knew
he was right but I so want to use my magic and help the teachers. This waiting
is just about too much; I’m going to need to do something soon. I’m just so
tense and I can see there are a lot of others the same way.

Shylyn looking at the line of
students all just itching to fight and she felt the same. As she tensed Angel
placed his hand on her shoulder and gave a reassuring squeeze. ‘Come on hold,
for it won't be long and I think we will be helping, now relax and do your
magic clearing exercise.’

Shylyn relaxed and looked at
Angel as he turned his face to their friends. She could see they were doing
theirs. Looking back at Angel she nodded for to try and talk with the noise the
creatures were making would have been impossible. She relaxed more and was soon
into her clearing exercise and was soon visibly relaxed.

Now the creatures were here, the
battle was engaged, soon there were that many above the wizards out on the deck
that it looked as if they would falter. No in the next minute they had been
repelled up into the sky. The wizards had fired off a volley of spells together
in one go which they do not normally do.

But it was not long and they were
back again and this time they were thicker still. Angel could see they were
going to have trouble repealing them again so Angel had a little idea. ‘Shylyn,
Medwin, Maive, I’m going to get everyone to fire off across the top of the
wizards spell and into the mass of creatures. When I give the word that’s what
we will do, so can you run along the line and tell everyone what is going to
happen.’

Shylyn looked around at their
friends who had stuck their heads close to try and listen. They nodded and
moved along the line telling everyone what they were going to try and do. They
might only be able to do this once but they should get a lot of them.

Angel waited till there were a
lot of the creatures above the wizards, who were still firing their spells. But
for everyone they hit there are more of them to replace that one. The air above
was getting thicker with the creatures when Angel decided it was time.

Angel waving his hand yelled.
‘Now.’ Angel fired as many fire balls as he could get going and all along the
line the others followed his shots.

They fired about five fire balls
each and with there being more than thirty students that was a lot of fire
balls. They took only one layer of the creatures and so just as many more took
their place. They all looked and the smiles on their faces, as the fire balls
speed to the creatures was wiped off as the new creatures filled those that had
died.

Angel could see this was going to
be a long day if they survived it. He turned and looked at the wizards who were
charging the lances and could see there were not a lot of lances. He walked
over to the head wizard of the group and asked. ‘Where are the rest of the
lances? We are going to need more than what’s here?’

The wizard looked at Angel as he
spoke. ‘Most of them we gave to the Dragon Riders as they needed them more than
we did at the time. Who was to know what sort of attack we were going to get.
No one would have thought of this one. So we are going to have to make do.’

Angel turned and headed back as
the Wizard went back to making lances which would take about three days to make
one lance. Angel’s stomach was starting to churn as he started to get nervous.
As he got back to the line he could see there was no difference from when he
left it.

They were just going to have to
keep at it but how long were they going to be able to last. With thousands of
creatures coming at them, it was going to be a matter of when would they break
through. He could see the groups up on the school roof were just about swamped
with them. Then there was a great whoosh and the air above them would clear for
a short time.

Angel looked at his friends and
they all looked the same as he probably did. What were they going to do, there
must be something. Again he looked around at the wizards as they fire spell
after spell at the creatures. There are some that are looking tired and the
dead creatures were starting to pile up.

We are going to have to do
something about them. He looked at the spell shields that the wizards where
using and they where just short of touching. Students could run underneath the
wizards shields and push the creatures of the Dragon Deck. I will have to check
with Medwin and see what he thinks.

‘Medwin,’ He had to yell to make
himself heard above the noise of the creatures. ‘I think we need to do the
cleaning bit again like yesterday. I think the four of us can do that with the
others keeping the line up?’ He turned and checked the battle again as he
pulled the girls in to let them know what they were going to do.

The girls indicated they will
help so Angel went back to the head wizard in the cave and told him they were
going to clear the deck of the dead creatures. The wizard looked at him and out
to the deck before he spoke. ‘That’s a good idea and we will come and take your
places in the line as there is not much we can do. Are you sure you can do it?’

‘We did it yesterday and if we
don’t do it soon they will have no room to move. We must do it now.’ Angel
turned and headed back to the line and his friends.

Angel got back and his friends
looked at him as he nodded yes. They waited till the head wizard of the cave
got to the line before they moved out. Angel gave one final talk before they
went.

‘Just be careful and look round
making sure a creature is not still alive or if a live one gets through. Are
you ready, if so lets go?’ He moved out of the cave and started into the area
where there were dead creatures.

They walked around the wizards as
they kept firing spells. There would be a different spell every now and again
as a wizard would try something to push a lot of them away. They were using
their shields which came up when they got close to the dead creatures. Their
magic could still detect the dead creatures were still dangerous.

It took them a little bit of time
to clear most of the creatures away giving the wizards more room. It was tiring
work what they did and they realized the wizards must be getting tried for they
had been at it now for the whole morning.

As they got back to the cave, the
four of them went and sat down at the back of the cave as they were a little
tired. As they sat there one of the kitchen staff come and gave them a drink of
Fire Bean Tea. As they drank it they talked about their fears.

‘I don’t think we are going to
make it there are just two many creatures and the wizards are not going to be
able to keep this up all day. They are going to need rest very soon.’ Shylyn
looked out at the wizards as she talked and in her eyes there were some tears.

Maive moved closer to Shylyn and
gave her a hug to help calm her down. ‘It’s ok we’re going to be fine, so come
on we will think of something.’

‘That’s what I and Angel are
going to go and do now. Think of something that will get us out of this.’
Looking at Angel. ‘Come on Angel lets go and walk and see if we can’t think of
something?’ Medwin got up and pulled Angel up with him as he finished.

They walked over to the line and
looked out at the battle and it was not looking very good. Just as they got to
the line a creature broke through and hit a student as it entered the cave.
Angel was first to move and he upped his shield as the creature fired a fire
ball at him.

Angel with his shield out had
deflected the ball of fire away and into the roof. He throws himself down as
another ball of fire speeds at him. His shield pushed it back out the cave and
Angel had to leap again and this time he had to leap and throw his body to the
left as his shield deflected it against the far roof.

Angel quickly got a spell fire
ball that hit the creature and propelled it against the far wall. It did not
get back up and Angel moved back over to Medwin. The head wizard of the weapons
area had seen him and nodded his head in a sign of respect.

Medwin waited as Angel come over
to him. ‘That was good foot work there to doge and fire in the one go. Just
like it was up in the shield practice room, you moved just as quick.’

Angel stopped and thought for a
few moments, as a smile came to his face. He was just about to gather the group
together to talk over what he had thought of, when there was a large boom which
came from outside. They quickly ran to the entrance of the cave to see what had
happened.

As they got to the cave mouth
they could see the wizards pointing up above the school where the wizards were
up on the roof. Their flying just above the roof was a creature the size of a
full grown dragon. It was defiantly not a dragon as it floated above the
wizards who were up there.

The creature opened its great
mouth and a large glowing ball come firing out of it. The wizards saw it coming
and put their shields on full for the ball just missed them and hit the school.
Where it hit there was a loud boom and bits of rock went flying into the air
showering down on the wizards below.

Angel looked to where Gavrie was
and he was indicating for the wizards to come back down where they could be
safer. Up on the roof there was not a lot of room to move around.

The creature was again building
up for another ball of the same when Angel and the others in the line all
turned and fired their fire ball spells at the creature to draw it away from
those on the roof. If they could draw the creature away then the wizards up
there might be able to get away.

The thirty fire balls all speed
at the large creature and hit it as it sensed them coming. The creature got
knocked back but that was about all, this made the students look at each other
with fear in their eyes.