Dragon Rider (DragonMage Saga) (16 page)

‘What about you Maive how does it
feel to you?’ Looking at her.

‘There’s a feeling that it’s
right what we’re doing but the other feeling, it’s what we are here for that makes
me wander. Why are we here for this now, and I have the feeling it was meant to
be, this was to happen. I don’t know why it’s just the feeling I have.’ Looking
lost, and not understanding what was going on.

Angel got up and looking through
the gate to find Gavrie gone and the students he was talking to. ‘Come on we
can go now and I will have a think on what you have just said Maive.’

They made it through with out
being seen and headed off to the meal hall. Going in they got their food and
went and sat not talking. They ate their meal in quite, each of them in their
own thoughts. They at first did not talk at all on the feelings of combining
magic.

*

As they quietly sat deep in
thought they didn't notice Gavrie had entered and looked in their direction. He
looked at them for a few moments before deciding to leave them to their
thoughts. They look very withdrawn just sitting there eyes staring into
nothing. What have they been up to looking this way?

Gavrie left the room leaving
Angel and his friends to themselves, they were very important. There was
something very unusual about these four and he was not going to do anything to
change them. Never before have wizards’ young or old grouped together like
this. Yes there would be groups but when it comes to magic they went their own
ways, but not this group.

With attacks coming from the
Renegade Wizards they were going to need all the help they could get in the
battle coming. He knows a battle will come and he has a feeling these four are
going to play a major roll in winning that battle.

*

Angel and his friends finished
eating and went to their common room, where they sat by the fire as it was cold
in their common room this evening or was it them. They had very deep thoughts
going on in their heads, with what Maive had said to them about the feelings
she had.

‘Maive can you tell us what you
felt when clearing WhiteFires magic paths?. Then the rest of us will do the
same as we need to know what these feelings are about’ Angel gave her a
comforting smile as he asked.

Maive paused and held herself
around the knees. She felt these feelings were very important and needed to
make sure that she spoke them clearly. ‘When I was deep into clearing
WhiteFires magic paths, myself and Whitefire both had this feeling what we are
doing was right. We also got the feeling this was always meant to be.’

‘Did you get the feeling that
everything had been drawn to this point in time?’ Angel was getting excited as
he asked her this.

‘Yes we both got that feeling; it’s
as if the magic needed to come together at this time,’ Maive now felt better
after talking about it, she now feels what they did was for the good, but of
what; she can’t say.

‘Shylyn what about you, did you
get those same feelings?’ Angel looking at her to see if he could see what she
felt in her eyes.

‘The same, what we did today was
right and for the good of whatever reasons it was done. I’m now starting to
feel really good, this is a first step and I think we are going to have more of
them.’ Shylyn now had that same look Maive has, what they did was right.

Medwin nodding his head smiled.
‘We four were meant to do this and now that it is done the feeling are we
moving to the next part of what ever it is that’s supposed to happen.’

Angel looked at them; there was
warmth in him for his friends. ‘What we do here now I think is going to change
the future of all Wizards and Dragon Riders. I also think there are going to be
dangers along the way and it will not be easy, starting with this Renegade
Wizard.’

Their dragons had been with them
as they talked about their feelings of what they had done. Aura had been
listening very intensely before she spoke. ‘I think I’m going to have to talk
with Grandfather about the feelings you and we have. I think he knows more than
he tells, but at the moment he keeps it to himself.’

‘Well, I think we had better get
some sleep as we have a lot to learn. I think from now on when we are looking
at spells in the library Aura you and WhiteMoon, WhiteFire and WhiteStar will
have to join us in mind and learn what we learn?’ He looked at the others and
they all nodded.

Aura’s feelings come over very
strong as she spoke. ‘This is good we feel learning to use your magic will also
let you understand our magic. Grandfather is going to have to show us how to
fully use our magic so that you can feel it better. Seeing how we form spells
and drawing on the magic of the earth will make us strong for what’s ahead.’

Finely stopping they found it was
very late, so turned in. The next morning they were down in the meal hall and
eating when Gavrie come in looked around and called to all. ‘Attention we have
just heard of a major attack on the Dragon Riders School and Hatchery. We lost
some Dragon Riders but the Renegades have started sending creatures of the Dark
Realms at us. We must be prepared as I think we will be attacked in the not to
distant future. As of this day there will be Wizards posted at the highest
points to worn of attacks; that will be all thank you.’

Angel looked at the others and a look
of horror come over him. Before Angel could panic Gavrie was there standing in
front of him. ‘Angel they are fine your mother and brothers helped fight them
off. They are well so don’t worry, now you four are going to need to learn a
few spells to fight the creatures if they happen to get past the others. For
the next couple of mornings I want you up in the Crystal Chamber where I will
teach you some simple spells and then you will practice them with your magic. I
will see you up there soon.’

After Gavrie left, Angel sat down
and relaxed the fear for his mother and brothers disappearing fast. ‘I was
worried as soon he said we lost some Dragon Riders, I thought of them.
Everything just seamed to roar in my head before Gavrie was there standing in
front of me.’

‘Come on they’re fine, so let’s
go and learn these spells which might help us against the Renegade.’ Medwin
could see Angel had relaxed enough now after Gavrie letting him know.

They reached the Crystal Chamber
not long before Gavrie. They were sitting in a circle and had called their
dragons to let them know what was happening and to join them. Gavrie noticed
the look on all their faces and couldn’t think what it was. It was calm yet
there was something else; there was a look of completeness, that’s all he could
put it down to.

‘Ok now you are going to learn
how to throw balls of fire and bolts of lightning. We will start with balls of
fire as we played with fire the last time here.’ Gavrie moved over to the
circle and formed the spell.

There in the centre of their
circle was a small ball of fire. Using their magic they looked at the pattern
in the ball to see how it was formed. They could see the pattern was like
rolled up a ball of wool.

Angel looked closely at it with
Aura there in his mind looking at it to. ‘What do you think Aura can you see
how the spell has been made. If you look at the centre of the pattern; that’s
were the first strand is started, now if we make a strand just like it thinly
and start to wind it in a circle making sure that gap between even as we wind
it around till we have gotten rid of all the gaps, now we should have a ball of
fire just like Gavrie’s one.’

Turning his vision to normally
look at the ball of fire he sees that it is burning brighter than Gavrie’s.
Medwin’s and Shylyns as well as Maive's all looked brighter than Gavrie’s.
Gavrie looked at the five balls of fire and could not believe his eyes their
balls of fire were a lot better than his and he was a very powerful wizard.

This was a simple spell but all
students who have tried it before always made weak fire balls but this not even
Angels father did it as good as him. These four are definitely special and he
was going to have to show them as much magic as they can take. Even the spells
he would not normally show any other wizard.

‘Ok, so we know you can do better
balls of fire than me, we are going to see how you throw them now. Angel open
the window as we will need a place to throw them?’ Gavrie speaking as he moved
to the side moving his ball of fire with him.

Getting up and opening the window
for Gavrie, Angel looked at his ball of fire still where he left it. He looked
at it and nothing happened, so he looked up at Gavrie and Gavrie smiled at him.
‘You can make a good ball of fire but you still need to know how to move it and
to throw it.’

‘I look at it and tell it to move
but nothing happens, how do I move it?’ Angel looked perplexed as he still
tried to get it to move.

The other three were having the
same problem so Gavrie took pity on them. ‘Ok what you now have to do is with
you magic you work with the spell of the ball and just attach another strand
but this one is linked to your hand like so. Now with it like that, you gesture
with your hand and to move where you want it to go.’

Gavrie moved over to the window
and with a gesture of his hand the ball came up to his hand and then Gavrie
throw the ball out the window. He looked at the others and told them how to
throw and releases the ball of fire.

‘Now when you throw the ball as
the ball leaves your hand you snap the link that is holding it to your magic.
But as you release it that magic link helps you propel it further than you
could normally throw anything. Now you try it?’ Gavrie moved away from the
window as he watched them throw their balls of fire.

Angel went first and released the
ball of fire and using the spell to help, he propelled it far out to sea. The
others soon caught on and Gavrie soon had them sending a lot more balls of
fire. They found after a while how to get that extra kick out of the magic link
before letting it go, thus getting further each time.

This took all morning and they
were told that tomorrow morning they would learn how to fire thunder bolts.
They headed off to lunch where they found them selves very hungry. They had
used a lot of magic to send ball after ball of fire out to sea.

Finishing they head off to their
corner by the door to get away quickly. As they crossed the deck they suddenly
stopped in the middle. There up on the roof of the school were wizards looking
out for creatures and they could see there was one on the tower this side of
the deck as well. They didn’t think the tower was ever used so they were now
going to have to keep an eye out for him as they crossed the other deck.

Going through the door into the
other deck they slowly move along the wall till they were at the mouth of the
dragon cave. At this point they could not see the wizard on the roof so went
into the dragon cave, but only just far enough that they could cross to the
other side with out being seen.

On the other side they waited
till the wizard was looking away before proceeding. ‘Come on we’ll have to run
to the door and open it very quickly, if he turns then we’re caught for he’s
bound to see us.’ Angel could see him look away and ran.

Going into the next two decks,
they found their dragons waiting. Angel climbed on to Aura as the others
climbed on to their dragons.

The dragons all lifted and shot
off over the edge of the deck and straight down and under the Dragon Decks
travelling just above the sea. As they travelled underneath they looked at the
sea with its waves hitting the rock face, but there was no sign of the rock
face breaking up. They could see the magic spell covered the rock face down
into the sea so the Dragon Decks would not break away from underneath.

Then they were flying out to sea
and gliding above the waves. Angel could feel the air passing over and around
his face a feeling he thought he had lost forever. They turned and headed back
to the deck where they glided in for a gentle landing. Angel looked at the
others and the looks on there faces. They loved the flying just as much as he
did.

They sat on the edge of the deck
talking about what they were to do next. ‘It has been a few days now since the
Renegade and Dragon were here, maybe he has given up?’ Shylyn looked at them
with that look of I believe that, but she knew he would be back.

Angel got up and stood looking
out to sea thinking. ‘He will be back there is no doubting that, it’s a matter
of how long before he turns up. Until then we have got to try find away to
defeat an adult wizard. One who will not be gentle with them when they try to
stop him?’

‘There has got to be a spell that
will work against him, the ones we are learning now are only small ones.’
Medwin getting up and going over to WhiteMoon.

‘All we can do is keep looking
and the spells we learn might only be small spells but don’t forget we have our
dragons magic and that spell becomes ten times more powerful, so we do have
that on our side.’ Maive sat there looking at them with a determined look on
her face.

‘Ok, we know some spells, the
ones we have been learning and the couple we got from the library. We can
practice those till we get to know them off by heart, and can cast them one
after the other without thinking about how to put the spell together. That is
going to be the only way we will be able to defeat the wizard.’ Angel looking
around seeing the same look he knew was on his face.

They moved over into the centre
of the deck and sat in their circle. Then they started to play with the spells
they already knew the fire which Angel showed them how he and Aura created the
tall plume of. Then they had the balls of fire that Gavrie showed them today,
and then there was the travel bubble that is used for wizards to travel around
in.