Dragon Rider (DragonMage Saga) (45 page)

‘Ok I will stop myself, I will.’
He looked with determination into Gavrie’s eyes.

Gavrie walked back and stopped
behind the white line and started the fire balls just like Medwin. Angel worked
hard at it and when he felt himself start to go he slowed himself down not
stopping just slowed which let a few fire balls hit his shield.

Gavrie was about to stop the
balls but when Angel started getting faster again he held himself back. Angel
did this a few time before he got faster but this time the others could see
Angel was in control and not the magic.

Angel felt the feeling coming on
and slowed himself but not to stop just to slow, that allowed a few to hit his
main shield. Once he had himself under control he speed up again and he felt
now he controlled what was happening.

He slowed himself down at lest
two more times but came out of it very quickly and got back into it. He got
faster and Gavrie was letting him keep going for he looked as if he had the
control and so as Angel showed he controlled what was happening Gavrie speed
the balls up until Angel was dancing all over but they all could see it was he
who was in control and not the magic.

Angel put his hand up and stopped
at which point Gavrie gave a wave of his hand and the fire balls just
disappeared. Angel walked over to them and was a bit short of breath as he
stopped in front but he had a big grin on his face.

Gavrie looked at him before
speaking. ‘How did you do that it should take you a few days of the slow balls
before you get a little control but that out there was full control, How did
you do it?’

‘The trick is when you stop your
self don’t, you must only slow yourself down even if it means a few fire balls
hit you body shield. You must not slow the fire balls down just leave them like
you did for me. You can bring yourself back quicker and then get back into the
shielding quicker. If you stop the balls then you are stopping the rhythm that
you need to fight the balls.’ He was panting as he spoke trying to get some air
as he tried to tell them.

‘Ok Angel I think I see what you
are getting at and we will try it tomorrow, you can start us off and explain as
you go. Maybe I will let you control the speed tomorrow and that way if I think
its not working I am libel to stop the balls, where as you know what you are
talking about. So I think tomorrow morning back here after breakfast and we
will give it another go. You can show us first, now off with you and get a
meal.

They all left the room with
Gavrie staying behind watching them head down the hall. They are coming along
fine they lasted longer than others when they are first confronted by the
feelings brought on in here. We shell see if what Angel says is right for if he
is then other students will get the benefit of this room quicker.

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Biggest Attack Yet

Angel was looking foreword to
showing the others what he found out in the room. He is sure he is right and
will be able to try it out this morning. The others were just as excited as he
was for the feelings one gets in that room are just incredible and to be able
to go in and just let yourself go, would be great.

They headed down in anticipation
of going to the room after breakfast and it sounds as if Gavrie is very
interested in what he thinks. They arrive at the meal hall to find it full and
a buzz in the air. They wander what is going on and find one of the teacher
wizards and ask.

Sitting at a table close to where
they are is a teacher that has taken them a couple of times and Angel goes over
to him. ‘Excuse me sir but can you tell me what everyone is talking about
around here?’

The teacher looks at him and then
the others before he answers. ‘There was a very large attack of creatures at
the Dragon Riders School in the early hours of the morning. There is a
contingent of wizards on their way over there now to help.’

There is a worried look on Angels
face as the teacher told him of the attack. ‘Do you know if any of the Dragon
Riders got hurt in the attack sir as my mother and brothers are there?’

‘We don’t know yet but there is
talk of some light injuries with some of them. Also as of now the school is on
alert in case we get attacked. So if I was you kids I would get some breakfast
now for if there is an attack you want have any time to eat, now off and eat.’
The teacher got up and headed out of the meal hall as soon as he had finished
talking to them.

They look at each other and
Shylyn gives Angel a pat on the back as she reassures him. ‘They will be fine,
from what I’ve seen of your mother and brothers they are very good Dragon
riders. So come let’s eat in case we don’t get a chance. Knowing our luck they
will attack just as we are about to eat.’

As their luck turned out they
were able to get breakfast in and were on there way to the room when Aura came
into Angels mind. ‘The dragon calls they come and are very close, you must warn
everyone as they come over the mountains just above the school.’

They race out onto the deck and look
to the mountains above the school trying to see any sign of the creatures. As
they look up and were about to turn back they spotted the creatures just coming
over the top. They were very small dots in the sky above; quickly they decide
to yell the warning. ‘Creatures Attack.’

The four of them yell at the top
of their voices and go running to the cave to get lances ready as the creatures
will be on the wizards as they run out of the school. They grab two lances each
and head to cover wizards and students as they leave the school to come and
fight.

The four of them start firing
fire balls up into the creatures as they reach the top of the school buildings.
They join together and fire groups of shots at the creatures so a group of
about ten fire balls are heading for the creatures. The fire balls hit
creatures and there is a very good success rate, with nearly all the shots
hitting targets.

They keep doing this and are
getting very good results, as more wizards and students come running out of the
school. Students ran to the cave to get lances ready while the wizards start
firing their spells.

Gavrie came running out to see
how things were going and stopped to watch Angel, Shylyn, Medwin and Maive in a
group firing groups of shots so they got a lot of hits. He quickly come to a
decision and yells to the nearest four wizards and points to the four kids
indicating see how they do it.

Gavrie runs over to them and gets
them grouped and firing like Angels group. They can see they are now getting
better results which encourage them to get more groups of shots off. Seeing
that he has one group copying Angel, he sets about getting other groups up and
running.

Soon there are ten groups firing
groups of fire balls into the mass of creatures still coming from over the mountain.
Gavrie has an idea and runs to the cave and gets the forty odd students out to
the front of the cave. There he gets them to stand in line and aim their lances
and then tells them to fire at the same time.

The students all fire of together
and then Gavrie tells them to keep firing altogether so there were groups of
fire balls hitting creatures? They were now getting more hits this way than
when they fire individually. Gavrie looked happy and could see the wizards were
now really getting into the group shooting.

While there was a mass of
creatures coming over the mountain the groups were working good but once they
start to thin out then they would have to go back to firing in ones and twos.
But looking at the amount that was still coming over the mountain, that was not
going to happen for a while yet.

Angel and the others were now
moving a little out into the centre of the deck were they could now help set up
a wall of fire balls. The Dragon Deck was starting to get real messy as the
dead creatures were starting to fill the area. Angel looked around and could
see the groups were now keeping the creatures at bay and from coming closer to
the wizards.

‘If this keeps up for to long the
deck is going to be covered in that many dead creatures there won’t be any room
for the wizards to work in. We’ve got to do something?’ Angel looked around as
he told his friends.

‘What can we do, with this many
creatures attacking there is just no time to remove the dead ones?’ Medwin was
looking around as well trying to see a way out of this.

Angel looking around and thinking
what we can do, when he had an idea. ‘Come on leave the shooting to the wizards
as they are now getting more of the creatures and that means that very few are
getting through. Now when we are in the room and knocking the fire balls away
we don’t feel anything when they hit and bounce off our shields. Now if we use
our shield and put it up in front of us we can use them to push the creatures
of the deck and into the sea.’

‘That could work and if we walk
in line and have our shields just touching we will be able to push them off, so
let’s go and do it?’ Maive has a big grin on her face as she spoke; this was
what she wanted to be able to help like this instead of loading lances and
passing them to the wizards.

The four of them got in line and
put up their shields and started walking, in the process the creatures that
were in front of them got pushed with the four not even feeling any resistance.
They had a big pile of creatures in front of them when Gavrie turned to see
what was happening.

Seeing what they were doing a big
smile come to his face, yes they are coming on very well indeed. Now let’s see
if there is another group that might be able to help do that while the others
keep the creatures at bay. Ah there is a group of students and they seam to be
having trouble so I will get them to help Angel and his group, push the
creatures over the edge of the deck.

The other students Gavrie sent
over to them, come up and asked what they were to do. Angel comes forward, ‘If
you activate your shield and stand close so your shields are very close
together. You then just walk and push the dead creatures over the deck and into
the sea.’

Looking at Angel they got their
shields going and walked pushing the creatures over the edge. They soon got the
hang of it and had a lot already over the edge. Angel smiled then got back to
pushing the rest over the side. By the time they had gone over to the opposite
side of the deck, the other side that they had just cleared was starting to
build up again.

Angel and his friends left it for
the other group as now that group could keep up with what was falling. They
went back to their positions and carried on firing fire balls at the swarms of
creatures that were still coming over the mountain.

They could see this was going to
go on for a long time as the amount coming over the mountain had not diminished
at all. So they settled themselves in for a long battle. But they still
wandered just how much damage the Renegade was doing to the old spell.

They were not able to get to the
old spell on this deck to test as they were to busy and there were two many
wizards and students around. They were just going to have to wait till the
creatures stopped or there was a lull in the attack. It had been four hours now
and they still came.

Angel was firing at the creatures
and now it was starting to get monotonous. They were firing by reflex alone
with their minds on other things. Angel looked at the creatures still pilling
over the mountain and no sign of relief. Something was not right for this
amount of creatures it would take a lot of wizards to keep the portal open for
this long.

They must have a lot of Renegades
over the other side of the mountain to be able to keep the portal open this
long. They are not opening and then closing and getting relief wizards, for if
they were doing that there would be breaks in the creatures coming over. There
was not, so that meant there were a lot of wizards relieving other wizards.

If only there were a group of
Dragon Riders around that could take out a few of them, it would stop them
opening for a few days. It just meant they were going to keep going till the
attack was over. Angel looked around and could see that students were tiring
and not getting many shots off at the creatures.

Angel and his friends were doing
the same but at lest they could call on their dragons to boost their magic
levels but then it would be too evident they were different. They had to act
like the other students and suffer the weakness that came with being tired.

They were firing into the
creatures when a couple did a funny dive and got under the firing of the
wizards. The creature had there own types of weapons they used to fight them
with and one was a horrible magic ball that looked really disgusting. The
colour of it alone was enough to put anyone off.

One of these hit a group of
wizards and got through their shields only just. The group of wizards found
themselves lying on the deck and they had burns over their bodies. Other
wizards ran to their aid and found a couple of them were very serious. From in
the school buildings a group of wizards appeared and started to take them back
into the school out of harms way.

This was their first major
injuries and it was very bad for two of them. There is a healing wizard here at
the school and he would be working on them now. It just goes to show that even
adult wizards are capable of getting hit and very badly. They carried on firing
their spells and got back into the fight.

Angel spoke as he fired his spells
which were now coming very few and far between. ‘I’m getting tried and I don’t
know how long I am going to last.’

Maive came close to him and she
could see he was indeed tired and needed to rest. She looked around and found Gavrie
just over to one side. He was busy firing spells at the creatures. As she
looked further around she could see other students looked the same as they all
felt.