Dragon Rider (DragonMage Saga) (27 page)

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The following morning the four
came down to their common room feeling good for the nights rest. They could
feel that sleep had made a big difference to the way they felt this morning, compared
to how they felt yesterday morning when they had slept in. They went down to
the meal hall where they found Gavrie waiting for them.

‘Well how do you feel this
morning compared to how you felt yesterday morning?’ Standing as he asked.

Maive looked at him. ‘We feel a
lot better than yesterday but we never thought it could make that much
difference.’

‘At your age especially your age
you need sleep; your body needs it because of your magic. Till your body is
ready and able to do without a lot of sleep you will find your magic will tire
you. It is going to take several years but in time you will not need the sleep
like you do now, so go and get some breakfast and I will see you up in the
Crystal Chamber after you finish.’ He gave them a smile and left the hall
leaving them to their meals.

Their lesson in the Crystal
Chamber was the same as the first with them going over the patterns in spells.
He told them again they needed to see how the patterns are built in this room,
for when they create their spells outside of this room they will not be able to
see it and so will have to picture it in their minds.

So they practiced weaving the
spells all morning but they also learned a few more spells showing how each
spell differs but can be changed to make something different. This was how
wizards made different spells but in their secret rooms so no other wizard
could copy their spell.

When a wizard used a spell
outside in front of other wizards, the other wizards could try to work out how
they were done and try and make one as close to that other wizards.  A
wizard would try and keep his best spell for when he really needs to use it.

Other wizards when they see a new
spell another wizard has made, he will try and build a defence for it just in
case it ever fell into the hands of a Renegade. Then he would try and alter it
into something else. This was how wizards learned and built up their arsenal of
magic spells.

After the morning being spent in
the Crystal Chamber they where allowed to go to their secret room and practice
their spells as well as try to change a spell into something different. This
today was part of their homework, to work on a simple spell of making a little
bubble appear in the air in front of them.

Getting to their secret room,
they went straight to the magic door and through the hall and to the next deck.
They quickly go to the next deck where their dragons are waiting for them.

The dragons are pleased to see
them and soon climb into the air and fly over the side and down and under the
dragon deck so as not to be seen. Getting to the deck and cave where the
dragons have been staying, they land and sit and they tell their dragons what
happened when they got hardly any sleep.

‘We feel this could be the same
with us as well for Grandfather told us we came to our magic early as well. It
may happen to us so we will all have to be careful what we do and getting our
rest.’ Night Aura gave Angel a nudge with her head as she spoke, Angel
responding with a scratch on her head.

Medwin looked at them and he suddenly
stood up and spoke. ‘If we are tiring quickly then when we try and stop the
Renegade, if we use too much magic and start to tire our defensive shield will
not be able to stand against a full grown wizard. We are not going to be able
to save the spell holding the school, what are we going to do?’

They all looked at him and their
faces dropped, even the dragons you could see it in their eyes. Angel had the
same look but was trying to think of a way around this problem.

‘We are going to have got to work
out a way we can use our magic and not get tired. There must be a way even if
we’ve got to do lots of magic and get ourselves tired. We have got to get our
shields to hold up when we are so exhausted that we are about to collapse. If
we get one or two of us to that point, then see if we can’t find away to keep
our shields strong. There has got to be a way, and we’re going to find it and
soon’. Angel looked at them as he spoke those last words, and they could see it
in his eyes.

They sat there quietly for a little
while just thinking of what they could do. After about an hour Shylyn got up
and looked at them. ‘Well I’m going to go for a little ride and see if that
won’t help me loosen up some brain cells. Come on it just might give us an
idea, but just sitting here is not helping any of us?’ She climbed up on to her
dragon as the others quickly got to their feet and followed.

The dragons all leapt into the
air with not a stirring of the air around them. Dragons when they go to fly
have a balance so fine they can leap slowly into the air and the air just parts
and flows around them. This means there is hardly any air disturbance when a
dragon lefts into the air.

They all climb high into the air
and proceeded to head out to sea. There was a light sea mist around which made
them go higher until they where above the mist. They find themselves flying
into clouds and the flow of the clouds around them relaxes their minds and
allows them to enjoy the flight and not think on there problem.

Flying around in the clouds, they
started to play games of hiding in the clouds and seeing who could find who.
They had been doing this now for a good hour when Medwin called out to the
others to look ahead. There in front of them quite a ways ahead they could see
a distortion in the clouds.

‘What do you think it is?’ Angel
called, but in the pit of his stomach he knew what it was.

Medwin come in closer as did the
girls before he called over to Angel. ‘I don’t know but I have a bad feeling
about it. I don’t think we should be here.’

Angel nodded his head before
speaking. ‘I think it might be a portal and the Renegades are controlling it.
Up into the clouds and head back before something sees us?’

They climbed into the clouds and
headed back knowing the school was going to be attacked. Suddenly Aura was in
his mind. ‘The dragon calls and tells us the Renegade is coming. He is so loud
I think he is very close to us. We must head away out to sea away from land and
come back in that way. He is so close.’

Angel calls the others and they
veer off and head out to sea away from land. They head that way till Aura feels
the dragon is farther away now. They turn and head back to their dragons deck
knowing they will miss this attack on the school.

Angel calls to them. We will not
have time to look at the spell the Renegade is using as we are not ready and we
need to be in the tower before the Renegade comes. We must get back and try and
see if we can walk to the tower and into our secret room.

They flew slowly back keeping a
close lookout for any creatures that might have got lost from the main group
for if the Renegade was here and that shimmering in the clouds far in front
would mean there were creatures flying to attack the school. They did not want
to bump into any at this time.

They flew in around the mountain
that held the school and over the last castle at this end. They started to land
when they looked up and could see a large group of creatures flying this way.
They where now in very serious trouble for all they had with them, were their
magic, no lances.

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First Battle With The Creatures

There were about 30 creatures in
the group and they were heading right for them. They were now in trouble, for their
only weapons would be the magic in them and that magic was untried. They were
going to rely on the fire balls and lightning bolts which they have only tried
a couple of times.

‘What are we going to do, we’ve
never used our magic much and here we are going to fight for our lives?’ Maive
was looking at the others and then looking back at the creatures getting
closer. A quiver in her voice, as she looked at the others.

Angel was looking around for a
place to hide but there was no where their dragons could hide. ‘We could hide
in the castle but the dragons could not even in their cave as the creature can
get them. Come on climb on your dragons and lets left out of here and see if we
can out run them. It might be our only chance?’

Medwin already mounted and was
yelling at the others. ‘Come on quickly they are almost here. We must left
quickly now, for the creatures are smaller and will be faster so we must go.’

The others were finally up on
their dragons and they all lifted and headed off up over the castle and around
the mountain. The creatures zeroed in on them and were close behind. Angel
turned and looked to see how far back they were. ‘They’re going to catch us
unless we do something fast. I’m going to try and send a fire ball at them and
see if that will slow them down.

Angel tightened his grip on Aura
with his legs and then turned his body a half turn and concentrated forming the
fire ball spell. He wove a ball the size of his head and cast the spell. The
fire ball formed in the air in front of his hands and he cast his hand like
they did in class and the ball of fire flew at the approaching creatures.

The ball of fire had just about
got to the creatures when the creatures peeled off around the fire ball. The
ball missed the creatures but it did slow them just a bit and that allowed them
to go up.

‘The ball was too small we are
going to try harder and make it bigger. I think all of us are going to have to
try throwing fire balls at them or lightning bolts. We’ve got to slow them down
while we try and get height.’ Angel had turned back to Aura as he finished
speaking.

The others now turned themselves
half way around and fired balls of fire. Shylyn would fire one then Medwin and
then Maive would fire one followed by Angel. They were not hitting anything but
it did slow the creatures down a little bit more.

‘We are not hitting any of them,
great wizards we are we haven’t hit anything yet and we are only just slowing
them down a little bit. Our dragons are not going to be able to out run them.
We’ve got to think of something else and it’s got to be soon.’ Maive was
starting to get worried as it started to show on her face and in her voice.

Angel turned back to the front.
‘Aura do you think we could do what we did the other day when we made that fire
so high. If we were able to do that, could you still keep flying?’

‘I can try if you create the fire
ball and then I will give you my magic and you can make it bigger again and we
can see what happens then. If we can make a really big fire ball it might get
some of them.’ Aura turned her head and looked at Angel as she spoke to him.

Angel called the others in closer
so he could talk to them. ‘I am going to make a ball of fire and then I will
draw in Aura’s magic like we did the other day, and try and make the ball bigger
and then send it against them. If that works you do the same and we will see
what happens?’

Angel focused on weaving the
spell again, with Aura watching him as he built the spell. It was getting
quicker for Angel to build the fire balls now. ‘I’m just about ready Aura as I
cast the spell you bring in your magic for me and I will increase the size of
it and cast it.’ Angel concentrated and the ball of fire started to appear in
front of his hand. ‘Now Aura, bring in your magic and let me increase the size then
I will throw it at the creatures?’

Aura lent her magic in with
Angels just like they did the first time the other day. The ball of fire
started to increase and Angel had to quickly cast it before it got to big to be
near them. As the ball of fire headed towards the creatures Angel kept on
increasing the size of the ball.

It was now almost on the
creatures and they started to scatter out of the way. As they did this they
veered off and some of them where hitting the creature next to them and causing
others to do the same. The fire ball ploughed into some of the creatures
coursing the fire ball to explode.

Medwin, Shylyn and Maive all
yelled out in cheers of joy as some of the creatures went down in burning balls
of fire. ‘Come on we can do that as well, lets get more balls of fire going and
try and get more of the creatures?’ Medwin encouraged the others to do as Angel
and Aura did.

Angel yelled to them to make sure
the fire ball is on the way before increasing the size of them. Next minute
there were three more balls of fire heading for the creatures and growing in
size as they went.

The creatures scattered out of
the way with only a couple of the creatures getting hit. The fire balls were
too easy for the little creatures to get out of the way. They were going to
look at something else, some other method of getting them.

‘Angel I’ve got and idea why
don’t we try and make a lot of smaller ones and throw them at the same time. If
we make them the size of our hands we should be able to make more very quickly
and that way we send about 30 balls of fire at the same time but spread out so
the creatures can’t get away as easy?’ Medwin had that egger look on his face
as he told the others.

Shylyn was right into it and had
a small ball of fire ready to go. ‘Come on with our dragons’ help we should be
able to fire a lot more very quickly.’

Angel nodded and they all started
making fire balls and soon there were dozens of fire balls heading to the
creatures and they were spread out. The balls were now hitting creatures and
seeing how good it worked they sent more and were soon firing balls after
balls.

The creatures had nowhere to go
and soon there were not many left. They all turned and started to chase the
remaining creatures that had turned and headed back to where they came from.
With the dragons now chasing the creatures Angel and his friends could aim a
lot better and were getting the last of them.