Dragon Rider (DragonMage Saga) (17 page)

They sat there and had little
fires going and balls of fire and small bubbles floating around. ‘Ok now we see
how the patterns that make up the spells are created so all we do now is with
the combined magic we make them as big as we can. Shylyn can you and WhiteStar
make the balls of fire bigger?’ Angel got them all to move back.

Shylyn and WhiteStar were just
starting to change the pattern when the dragons started to whimper disrupting
Shylyn. Angel and the others looked at their dragons and asked them what was
wrong. All they got was ‘Dragon.’

Angel tried to calm Aura down and
had a lot of trouble for the dragon was really angry this time and its feelings
were almost overpowering. ‘Aura join with me, come you need to push the feelings
out of your mind. Let me help you block them, use your magic to push them away.
That’s it you can do it.’ He could feel Aura start to get control.

The others were fighting to help
their dragons push the strong feelings out of their minds. They could feel
themselves winning as the dragons calmed down. It took them a little time to
finally get the dragons to completely block the feelings.

‘Ok now all we have to do is
convince a great dragon to warn us when he comes. Who wants to do that, who
wants to be the person to go up to the dragon and ask him to help four
wizards?’ Angel had a smirk on his face as he asked.

Medwin and Shylyn both spoke
first. ‘You really want to do that?’ Looking at each other as they both spoke.

‘Angel’s right if we can persuade
the dragon to warn us when they fly in it will save us getting caught. If we
don’t we are bound to get caught either when we fly or if we are seen on the
deck. It’s the only way.’ Maive looking at them and knowing it.

Nodding their heads, they looked
in the direction the feelings were coming from. Angel turning to them begins to
explain what he wanted to do. ‘We will have to walk back to school this time,
because with the wizard here he might see the dragons and we are not ready for
him yet.’

‘Will our dragons come or stay
here?’ Medwin looked at Angel to see what he wanted to do.

‘They’ll stay here but be with us
in mind it might make the dragon settle down when it sees us. Also with them in
our minds they could help settle it down enough for us to talk to it.’ Angel
gave his dragon a hug and then headed for the door leading off to the deck
where the dragon and his wizard are.

The others gave there dragons a
good bye hug and went after Angel. Catching up to him they all wanted to ask
how they were going to go about it. ‘I think we need to see him and look at the
spell so we can be sure it’s a spell that we are going to be able to remove.’
His thoughts were on how it was going to happen as he told the others.

‘If we send out calming thoughts
as we come to the deck, going through into the cave. Then it might give us time
to talk to it?’ Maive moved up behind the others as they headed through the
decks.

‘That’s a good idea so as we get
closer to where the dragon is we really start to pour on calm thoughts. It looks
to be back at that same deck so lets go, it’s getting late in the afternoon and
we don’t want to be late back?’ Angel picked up the pace as they had four more
decks to cross before they come to the deck with the dragon and wizard on it.

They arrived outside the door to
the fifth deck and stopped and listened with their linked minds to see if the
calming thoughts had done any good. ‘It has worked for his thoughts are so
quite you would hardly know a dragon was just through there. Well are we ready
this is the point of no return?’ Angel looked at them one at a time as he asked
the question.

Medwin and Shylyn both nodded.
Maive looked at them but spoke instead. ‘Lets do it Angel you speak to it and
we will be your support right behind you.’ She knew this was going to be hard
for Angel as having been brought up with them and playing with them, and then
all of a sudden every dragon hate you. That would be hard to get over but Angel
finding Aura has done him good so if anyone can it’s him.

They opened the gate and looked
through, not seeing anybody on the deck they looked at the tower and the
windows up there to see if they could see the Renegade Wizard. They looked long
and hard but were unable to see him, so they were going to have to risk nipping
through and getting into the cave without getting seen.

Angel took one last look and they
quickly ran to the cave and stopped just inside it. They could feel the dragon
there, its large red eyes penetrating the dark. Angel slowly walked over to the
dragon and stopped just half way there to let his eyes get use to the dark.

He looked back to see where the
others were and found them right behind him. ‘Thank you for coming over with me
now lets see if we can see the spell holding him. Look around his back legs
there looks to be a spell chain tight around the back legs and going into the
floor of the cave.’

They walked a little bit closer
and as they did the dragon didn’t take its eyes off them. They stopped just 30
feet from the dragons head, for at the moment till they spoke to the dragon
they did not want to be within striking distance.

Angel looked at the dragon and
spoke through Aura to the dragon. ‘Will you talk with us?’

For a moment there was no reply, and
then into their heads come a response. ‘Who are you who would come near me?’ It
was not an overpowering experience the voice in their minds so the calm
thoughts were working.

‘We need your help to warn us
when you bring the wizard as he will destroy us if he finds us?’ Angel had
decided it better to get straight to the point so as not to antagonize the
dragon.

‘Why should I help you when you
are like him? You are wizards I can small the magic in you?’ He was getting a
little more angry as he spoke in there minds.

‘If you help us we will find a
spell to remove the spell chain that binds you to the cave floor. We will do
this as long as when you are close you send a call to our dragons letting them
know that you come?’ Angel turned and looked at his friends and gave them a
reassuring nod.

Into his mind comes a loud roar
that knocked them back. ‘Why would you help me when you are like him are you
trying to trick me?’

Aura suddenly entered the
conversation. ‘They are not like the one up in the tower they would rather die
than harm a dragon, you can feel it in their minds, it’s not a trick. Will you
help us? They will do everything possible to find a spell to release you.’

There was nothing for a time then
into there heads came his reply. ‘I will trust you if I help you can you take
the spell of and set me free?’

‘If you will let us come close
and look at the spell so we can see it’s pattern then that will let us find a
way to break it. It is a very strong spell from where we can see it?’ Angel
started to walk towards it as he spoke.

‘Come close and see what your
kind has done to me.’ There was pain in the dragons’ voice as they approached
him.

Angel and the others looked at
the spell and looked at the pattern. They found the chain was made up of strong
little spells that bound each together. To try and break a link would be very
hard and beyond their power at the moment. They were going to have to look in
the library to find the best way to break the spell.

Looking up at the dragon Angel
spoke to him. ‘The spell is very strong and we are going to have to look in our
library to find a way to break it. You have our word we will do every thing in
our power to break that spell for you.’

The dragon brought its head
around and down close to them and in their minds he replied. ‘I will worn your
dragon friends when we are coming and it will be a long way away when I do,
will that give you enough time?’

‘That will give us plenty of time
we will go now and see what we can find in the library but be warned it’s big
so don’t expect it to happen soon but we will do it.’ Angel turned and the
others followed as they went to the edge of the cave leaving the dragon behind
looking at them.

They got to the edge of the cave
and slowly went to the door to the next deck not seeing the wizard anywhere
they went through and into the cave and across to the other side where they
quickly got to the door. They were not able to check the old spell that held
the Nirvana to the rock face as they had to quickly get back to the school.

They would do that when the
wizard was not here then they could take there time looking at it. They arrived
at the deck before the school deck and checked to see where the wizard who was
lookout had gone. They could see him looking out to sea so they ran into the
cave and across to the door where they checked to make sure that no one would
see them.

It was all clear so they quickly
went through. They were going to have to spend some time in the library and try
find away to break the spell. They would do that after the meal as they were
very hungry.

Contents

First Attack

Everything they had done had made
them very hungry and so have big platefuls of food in front of them. As they
started to eat Gavrie comes into the hall and sees them. Going over, he stops
and looks at the food in front of the four.

'I take it you’re hungry with
that much on your plates? You’ve been busy with magic practicing your path
clearing and the spells I have shown you so far.’ He stood there waiting for a
reply, just to see what they will tell him.

Angel decided he would answer
before the others got too worked up over what Gavrie said. ‘We’ve been
practicing out on the deck in a very quite corner so as not to be disturbed.
We’ve been keeping up with the clearing exercise as well for we found that
after we do some magic they can block.’

‘Good you will find when you do
stronger spells the paths do block and the reason is that when you create the
spells and casting them, the spell paths pick up a bit of the exercise spell
and it is left on the sides of the magic paths.’ Explaining this to get them
into the habit of clearing there paths, so as they can be able to cast good
spells.

Angel decided to find out if they
can spend some time in the library. ‘We still need to find how the master books
work and so are going to set our selves some exercises in finding certain types
of spells?’

‘That’s fine we don’t mind you
using the library to better learn how to find the type of spell you might need
in a hurry. You can use the Crystal Chamber to practice your spells so you can
see the pattern in them. Now if you will excuse me I must be away at a
meeting.’ He left as soon as he finished speaking with the four.

They quickly finished their meal
and headed up to the library. Entering the library they find the same wizard
who was there the other day. They said hello as they went over to the master
books.

‘We need to know what to look
for, how will the chain spell be found in the books?’ Angel looked at them as
he put down the book.

‘We could look under locking
spells and see if it comes under that. There has got to be a spell in this
library that is the same?’ Shylyn was moving along looking at the master books.

Medwin grabbed a book and brought
it back to the table. ‘This one might help it will have something on breaking
spells. If we look under breaking spells it might also have a section on the
different categories for breaking spells?’

Angel nodded his head and they
all gathered around Medwin as he opened the book. ‘The section on binding
that’s the one we need for the spell is a binding one a very powerful binding
spell is what’s holding the dragon. So lets go to that section of the library
and see how many books on the subject there are?’ Angel turned and pointed to
an isle.

Shylyn stopped and indicated
these were the books. ‘Here they are and there appear to be about half this
shelf full of them. This is not going to be a quick search.’

They spent the evening trying to
find something on binding spells but had not come across any before they
decided to turn in.

The following morning at
breakfast they were going to learn how to create lightning, and once made, how
to throw it. They had a quick breakfast and headed up to the Crystal Chamber,
arriving there they thought they would beat Gavrie but he was there waiting for
them.

‘Ok good. You’re early so lets
get started this spell that you will be learning is not going to be easy so you
will need to listen.’ He indicated they will work from the side of the room and
not the centre.

They moved to the wall where
Gavrie stood. They could see he was creating the spell and turned so they could
see the pattern he was forming.

‘Now look closely as I form the
pattern. You will notice it is in the form of a lightning bolt, that’s so it
will make it easier to hold in your hands and throw like a spear. Now I would
like you all to form the spell?’ He hadn’t gone into great detail like he would
with his normal students. He wanted to see just what they had in them.

Angel called in Aura to be with
him and help build the pattern just like Gavrie’s. Angel and Aura started to
work on the spell; weaving this way and that till they had it as good as
Gavrie’s. The others had called in their dragons and you could see all four
spells where as good as Gavrie’s if not better.

Angel was the first to try his
lightning bolt out. He had to cast it out the window and as far into the air as
he could. ‘Ok Aura we hold the spell like so and we will do the release like we
did for the ball of fire.’ Motioning what he was going to do.

Angel draw back his arm and then
pulled his arm through and releasing the spell as his hand aimed at the air
outside the window. The spell went flying out the window and well out to sea.