Dragon Rider (DragonMage Saga) (43 page)

Now let’s see what these four can
do, so I will control the starting and stopping till they have the idea. Now
what will be the best level to start on, maybe three or four balls at a time
for a start or maybe just two and see how they go? Speed I will show them how
to up and down the speed the balls come at them.

Ok let’s get the ball rolling.
Gavrie looked at them, ‘ok who wants to go first, I will have the settings low
and I will show you how to up the speed of the balls. I will retain control on
how many fire balls come at you until I feel you are capable of doing that
yourself. So who’s first up?’

He looked at them one at a time
to see who was going first. Angel looked at the others and they nodded. ‘I’ll
go first, so how many balls will you give me for a start, four or five or
more?’ Angel said this as a joke for he knew Gavrie would not trust them with
more than one or two for the first time.

He looked at him and a smile came
to his face as he could see Angel was not serous. ‘Well I see you like to joke
so I will give you your five balls and see how you do, mister smarty.’ Gavrie
watched him as he told him this and the look on his face was not fear but
respect.

He knew for him to give him five
means he thinks his ability is up to handling five. He knew he would have to
show him he can handle five and I will have control of the speed they come at
me. ‘Ok let’s go and try it?’

Gavrie took Angel out to the
middle of the floor and then showed him the spell that would control the speed
they would came at him. ‘Now have you got that, so it’s just an easy flick of the
wrist and the speed will increase or just back the other way and it will slow
them down? I will be watching and if I see you getting into trouble I will stop
it. Good luck.’

Angel stood there and watched
Gavrie walk over to his friends and behind the white line. Now he would be
getting the spell ready to send them, why did I open my big mouth to get five
coming at me but at lest I control the speed? My mouth is a bit dry should have
had a drink before starting, well not much I can do about it now. Here we go I
can see him casting the spell.

Gavrie looked at him in the
middle of the room, now we will see how good he is. Maybe I should give him
less, as this is the first time he will have faced a test like this. The only
good thing about this is he controls the speed, so let’s see what he can do.

‘Ok Angel here we go.’ Gavrie
waved and casts the spell that will fire the balls at him. He sees the balls
heading for Angel and could see the speed was very low; he could just duck
under them rather than use his shield. I’ll just watch and see what happens.

Angel stood there in the middle
of the room looking around moving for he knows that Gavrie has cast the spell
and the fire balls will be here any minute. Now relax move around slowly and
see where they are coming from, I will have the speed slow for a start and work
up from there.

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The Scorched Room

Angel stood out in the middle, he
was ready and any minute now they would come at him, his thoughts all tense
waiting. Here they are now, oh I think I have the speed just a little too slow
so here goes, now it’s just a little twist of the wrist and the balls should
start to go a little faster. Here they come now bring the shield up in this
hand and see how it works on the first one. Now move down and around just a
little and there pushed that one off now let’s see behind me next. There that
one was easy enough, now back for the others. Good that’s working now use the
magic and feel where the next ones come.

The others stood there looking at
Angel in the middle of the floor with the balls coming slowly at him. They
could see he was taking it easy for a start as the balls were not going very
fast. Then he starts speeding them up a little more and Gavrie is still firing
only five at a time.

The next five Angel hits them off
against the walls and is readying himself for the next round when Gavrie fires
the next lot they see Angel has speed them up and they are going faster. Angel
seams to be in a trance as he moves to intercept them with his shields.

He has pushed that lot against
the far wall and stands ready for the next five. They see the next five shoot
out at him and they are going very fast. Then Angel is in motion as the shield
defects all the balls away into the wall. Gavrie sends the next lot and they
are even faster but Angel is using the magic to sense where they are coming and
is ready as each one comes at him.

One moment he is facing them and
a fire ball hits the shield that is protecting them watching. Gavrie seeing him
using the magic to sense which direction they are coming from, adds another
fire ball so that he’s facing six. Angel has speeded them up faster again and
is starting to move around the room and is not staying in the middle.

With Angel now moving around the
room and the balls coming faster it gets harder to see the balls where if you
stayed in the centre you would know all the fire balls would come to you there.
But with him moving around and the balls going faster he was making it more
difficult on himself.

Gavrie increased the amount of
fire balls by adding another two making eight coming at him now. Angel had
increased the speed to what Gavrie was doing when he showed them. Shylyn could
see Angel was getting wrapped up in the moment and was going to show Gavrie how
good he was which was not what they wanted.

Shylyn called to her dragon to
let Aura know what Angel was doing and for her to contact Angel. Aura had to
get Angel to slow down and stop before he showed too much to Gavrie.

Angel was wrapped up in the
moment, with his motion so fluid he was nearly dancing around the floor. All of
a sudden Aura was there in his mind calling to him. ‘Angel you need to slow
them down and stop before you show Gavrie how good you are. You must stop now
before he realizes what power you have?’

Angel felt that all time had
stopped as he could see every fire ball coming at him in slow motion. He felt
so good the feelings of the power in his magic; it was so intoxicating he
wanted to speed it up faster and faster. Then Aura was there beside him in his
mind.

‘Aura can you feel how good it
feels, look the balls of fire I can stop them if I want to?’ Angel was almost
on the verge of doing just that, it felt like he was stopping them but in fact
he was speeding up faster.

‘Angel stop NOW?’ The command was
so strong it jolted him out his revere and almost got him killed.

They all looked as all of a
sudden Angel stopped in mid step and they all looked at the fire balls all hit
him at once. He was lucky his shield came on full to protect him. They all
watched as in the middle of the room there was a great ball of fire that had
Angel at the centre of.

Angel looked about him and saw
everything in a red haze as the fire raged around him. Aura there in his mind
reassured him it was all ok. She had seen what had happened when he suddenly
stopped and had quickly used her magic to put up his shield for his magic had
been with him in the moment and when he stopped it had stopped as well.

‘I was so enrapt with the moment;
everything just went from my mind as the magic took over the defence. I seamed
to know just where each and every ball of fire comes from. The magic let me
line up to shield against each ball of fire that came at me. The feeling was so
fantastic.’ He was still coming down from the high he just had.

Angel looked at the others and
walked back to the area they were in. Gavrie looked at him walking back and as
he came up to them he looked Angel in the eyes and could see the sparkle there
still. He was so rapt up in the action of shielding against the fire balls and
he showed he was still up high.

Gavrie has not seen anyone do
what Angel had just done before in all his life. Angel was two years junior to
any of the other students that started at the right age. He must not show he
could see how fast he was shielding against the attack. Just watching him was
like watching a dancer. It was so graceful how he moved; it was so fluid in
every movement.

Gavrie looked at the others and
they all looked at Angel, he could see the awe in their eyes for they saw what
he had seen, and they were barely holding their excitement in. He quickly
brought their attention back to the moment. ‘Ok Angel that was good but you
nearly lost it there at the end. With all the balls of fire coming at you just
as you stopped I did not think you would get your shield up in time. But well
done now who is next to give it a try?’

The others looked at Gavrie and
then at Angel before Shylyn stepped foreword. ‘I will try it next so Gavrie took
her out to the centre and showed her how to control the speed of the fire
balls. Now just remember you control the speed so at any moment you can have
them stop in mid air if there is any problem, so go to it.’

Shylyn was nervous as she waited
for the fire balls to come at her. I just need to relax and let the magic of
the shield take control. It’s what Angel did so I can do it as well, here they
come. Now slow them down and let the shield come up, that’s it just push that
one away now turn to deflect that one. Now we move over there and drop down
shield up push and away.

This is easy now speed them up
and here we go this one first now that one duck under that one push that one
away up there. Quickly back, arm up there and shield out to push it that way.
This is easy now faster just like Angel but don’t get to involved I lose focus
on keeping it easy.

Shylyn was starting to do the
same as Angel and in a moment she was doing what Angel did and the speed of the
fire balls picked up. She was dancing now so graceful that to Shylyn she was
fluid. She flowed in this direction and then turning that direction. The way
she through her body around to block each and every fire ball.

Angel had come back down to
normal now and could see Shylyn was doing the same as he did. He quickly told
Aura to let Shylyns dragon know and enter her mind and bring her back. Shylyn
danced around dodging and blocking the fire balls that came at her when her
dragon came into her mind and brought her back to what was going on.

She pulled up and as she did,
slowed the fireballs down to a crawl, then she stopped altogether. Shylyn
looked around as she slowly walked back to the others, her thoughts of what had
just happened flowing through her head. I knew I had to be careful but no I did
the same as Angel, it’s just the feeling it gives you is so intoxicating.

Coming back to the others she
looked at them her expression was a bit sheepish but she was happy. Gavrie
looked at her with the same look he had for Angel, what these kids are doing
was unheard of. Gavrie asked who’s next and Medwin stepped forward, Gavrie took
him over into the centre and set him going.

The same thing Angel and Shylyn
did happened to Medwin as well; he got involved just the same. The moment took
over and he was speeding the fire balls up and was just as graceful as the
others were. Angel was now on to it and got his dragon to do the same as what
they did to themselves.

Medwin come down with the same
feeling and the sparkle in his eyes was just as evident as the others. Gavrie
just looked and took Maive into the centre and showed her what to do with the
speed. He came back and sent the balls of fire into the field and Maive did the
same they just could not stop the feeling it gave them.

Angel was ready and when she lost
it to the feelings he got her dragon to go in and bring her back. She came back
feeling the same and looking just as sheepish as the rest. She knew what was
happening when she went in and thought she could control herself, but the
feeling is so strong she just could not control it.

The four of them back at the door
with Gavrie looking at them. They looked at him and he spoke. ‘That was very
well done now you must not come here by yourselves as it is still very
dangerous and you need to know how to release the fire balls. If you came in
here you would not know how to determine how many balls to send and you could
end up with hundreds of fire balls.’ Gavrie felt pride in what they did here
today but he could not let them come in here by themselves.

‘Now I will give you some more
time in here in the next couple of days so you can try and get better control
of your feelings. I know what it is like to see the feeling take over and you
get so involved that soon you are just out of control. I was lucky to have
another wizard here to pull me out of it.’ He turned and motioned them to leave
the room.

Closing the door he walks down
the hall with them as they talk about what they felt. Angel was leading the
conversation. ‘The feeling is so different to anything I have ever felt before.
What about the rest of you?’ Angels mind was still racing with the adrenalin
that was pumping through his system.

Gavrie was listening as he
followed behind them, he could well remember the feelings from his first time
in the chamber. It was through his friend he was able to pull out of it, when
he came running into the room using his shield to block and then boll him over
and bring him back to his senses.

The thing with these kids is the
age and the speed they worked at was just about out of this world. They are
something unheard of and he must nurture them, watch they don’t try something
they are not able to control. He must show them in away that makes them think
it is their doing.

There are going to be days coming
when they will be needed and he must make sure they don’t hurt themselves as
they learn. This was going to be the hard part and he will have to get them
back in here to control the feelings they get when working out in that room.