Dragon Rider (DragonMage Saga)

by Platt, S. P.

  They practiced in there all morning before Gavrie told them it was time for lunch, so off they went. Taking lunch with them over to their usual place by the door into the other deck. Now they were going to have another look at the spell and see what they could do with it.

  They all sat in a half circle and looked at the pattern of the spell holding the school. Angel was the first to speak. ‘I see the spell but still the pattern is hard to see, but there must be a pattern. If we can see that then we will be able to see how the spell works at holding the school against the rock face.’

  ‘We have to look inside the spell, try and see each layer of it.’ Medwin was looking hard into the spell but could not see the layers he was talking about.

  The girls looked and agreed. ‘If this is like a pattern in a woven fabric then we may have to look from all angles.’ Shylyn was looking at Maive as she spoke.

  They were about to start there path clearing exercise when Maive suddenly spoke. ‘Maybe it is layers and angles but maybe also it is different magic as well. If you look closer you can see a slight difference in the magic, it could be a different type of magic.’

  Angel got up and walked closer to the spell and looked deeper into the spell. ‘Maive you are right there is a different magic mixed in with the normal magic. This we will have to look at. Maybe we should see if we can look in the library and see if there’s anything in there that might help.’

  They sat there for a little while longer when they thought it time to do there exercises and so Angel was the one to watch first. It was while he was watching the others that Aura arrived into his mind. ‘Aura you gave me a surprise coming in like that, are you ok, is everything alright? Your Grandfather is he still angry with you?’

  ‘No Grandfather is happy; he can see what a difference being with you has done to me. I think I have never been happier which he is right. So we are good. How have you been?’ Angel could feel the joy in her being back.

  ‘I am glad you are back as I have missed you so much. This is good for us as I feel the bonding and what it has done for us. So all I have to do is get away from my friends and come and see you. They would love to meet you and they have not had the feelings since that first time so maybe they will not have the urges, I hope not.’ Angel could not keep the joy of her back in his mind out as he spoke to her.

  ‘Angel, can you bring them along for I would like to meet them. It would not hurt them and might be good for them so we will see.’ Angel could feel a bit of secrecy with what she said.

  ‘Ok we just started the exercise of clearing the pathways so we’ll come as we are left alone to practice. I hope you have been clearing your magic pathways while you have been away?’ There was a bit of worry in his voice.

  ‘I have not missed doing that and Grandfather agrees.’ She fades from his mind.

  Now all I have to do was get them to come along with him. How will I get them to come, they had a lot of trouble when I went to see if the gate was open. I’ll just have to tell them about Aura, which will be a surprise.

  Angel spoke to them in a firm voice to bring them out of the exercise. ‘It’s time come on, come out of it now.’ His voice firm as he spoke so he could penetrate their minds.

  The three came out of it quickly, and noticed it was not time as they had only just gone into doing their exercise. Medwin spoke with a worried voice. ‘What’s wrong you’ve brought us out to soon, we only just got into it?’

  The girls looked at Angel as Medwin had voiced what they had been thinking. ‘It’s ok nothings wrong so get up as we have somewhere to go and we need to be quick about it’.

  Walking over to the gate he stopped and looked around to make sure there was no one around to see them. After making sure it was clear he looked at the lock on the gate and could see it was a very simple one.

  He was playing with the lock when the others came over with worried expressions on their faces. But Angel was determined this time to go through the gate. ‘I’m going through here and I need you lot to come with me please, it’s important.’

  He turned back to the lock and had it undone in no time at all. The others just looked at him as he opened the gate and walked through. ‘Come on now I need you to come with me and you will get a nice surprise if you do, come on please quickly.’

  Medwin looked at him and a smile comes to his face as he walked through the gate. ‘Why not I would like to see if the spell is the same all the way around, come on girls it’ll be ok?’

  The girls looking around to see if anyone was watching found no one and walked through. Shylyn was first. ‘This had better be good, because if I’m going to get thrown out of the school it had better be for something good.’

  Maive looked at Angel with a stern look on her face. ‘We had better come with you just to keep you out of trouble.’

  Angel had a smile on his face as he headed off in front of the dragon cave of this deck. They found them all the same as there one but unused. As they went they kept the vision on the spell so they could see if it was the same all the way around.

  They had got through four decks when Angel stopped and looked at the spell on this part of the deck. ‘Can you see that, there is a slight difference in the spell? I wander what it could be, as we haven’t seen anything like it so far. We’ll have to look as we go along. Keep your eyes peeled but we will have to speed up as we have a ways to go yet.’

  Getting to the ninth deck they stopped for a rest and angel had to tell them about what is to happen. ‘We are almost there, through that gate is the final deck and there is the surprise I promised you. Just relax and let whatever happens, happen. Angel opened the gate and walked through. The others followed and stood there looking around but not seeing anything.

  They were about to say something, when Angel walked out to the middle of the deck and looked in the cave. The others looked at him and walked over to stand by his side. They could not work out what he was doing just standing there looking into the cave.

  Speaking, Angel walked forward a couple of steps. ‘I would like you all to meet NightAura; she is someone special to me.’

  They were about to say something when in their minds, came greetings. They stood there looking all around but could see nothing then just out of the corner of their eyes they caught a movement from the cave. To their utter surprise out comes a black dragon.

  Angel walked up to her and gave her a big hug like he has never done before. ‘I missed not being able to be near you and give you a scratch behind the ears.’

  Angel turned looking at the others and could see they were just standing there with their mouths open. ‘Come on over and say hello to NightAura, she won’t hurt you come on.’

  Shylyn was the first to move. ‘Is this your dragon Angel, she’s so beautiful and the eyes are so intelligent. Please forgive me NightAura I’m Shylyn, I’m pleased to meet you.’

  ‘Pleased to meet you and thank you for your complement come closer and touch me if you want, that goes for you to Medwin and Maive, come I won’t bite?’ She sat down as she spoke those last words.

  Medwin walked over with Maive coming behind him just not as sure as Medwin was. ‘I glad to meet you and how long have you been with Angel?’

  ‘I have not long been with Angel but it is as if I needed to find him for I had been drawn to the area where Angel was climbing. I think we were meant to be together, as I don’t normally go this far from home.’ Medwin was taken back with the way she spoke to his mind.

  Maive looked at her and spoke. ‘I have always liked dragons and to finely be able to stand beside one and not be scared of getting hurt. It is a dream come true for me, thank you. If I died now I would die the most, happiest person of all.’

  Angel was standing to the side as his friends touched and talked to Aura, when he got a sudden feeling of intense wanting. There is something in the cave no some things in the cave. ‘Aura, who have you brought with you, I wander.’

  ‘Medwin, Shylyn, Maive, look there now, Aur
a has brought you a gift and what a wondrous gift it is. Angel looked deep into the cave as he spoke this.

  The others looked at Angel with a quizzical look on their faces when they suddenly turned towards the cave, they looked then started walking. As they did so out of the cave come three dragons all the same size as Aura. In their minds they were greeted. ‘Hello we have come to be your dragons would you like that, for we would?’

  The three just stood there looking then out of there mouths come. ‘Dragons for YES.’

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  The Spell Weakens

  They stood there looking, mouths open and eyes gleaming. Angel stood looking as well’ for this indeed was a surprise and a shock. ‘You never told me there were others like you, just your grandfather.’ Looking closer at the other dragons.

  ‘I did not know how you would react and I didn’t really have time to tell you. They are my brothers and sister. When I told grandfather what had happened they told grandfather they wanted riders as well. She turned to look at the faces of Angel’s friends and her brothers and sister.

  Angel could see the wanting on the faces of dragons and his new friends. That must be how I looked when I meet Aura for the first time. They have so much joy on their faces knowing they are going to be with each other. I wander how they will pear off.

  All three are pure white; it’s going to be hard to tell them apart. Medwin looks to be first to go to his dragon. Looking at the one he is going for I can start to see the differences, in the eyes that’s were you can really tell. I can feel him probing the dragon and she can feel the wanting in his mind. They were made for each other.

  ‘Aura can you feel it between the two, they were meant to be together. Look there your brothers are the same with Shylyn and Maive. You can feel deep down they will be one like you and me.’ There was real surprise on Angels face as he could see what was happening.

  ‘It is like I said we were meant to be and they are meant to be. There was no getting to know each other before they chose; they went straight to each other. There is something strange going on and it has to do with grandfather.’ There was a far away look in her eyes as she spoke.

  ‘I think we are going to need to speak to him and soon. Once we get settled in getting to know each other. We must get your magic channels clear like ours as we are seeing magic in a new way. Learning that will let us all get to know each other.’ Joining the others, as they began to find out more about their dragons.

  Medwin looked up as Angel come over. ‘I would never have believed this would be possible. Me with a dragon, thank you Angel and you Aura, thank you.’

  ‘Come Medwin you must introduce me to your dragon?’ Smiling as he spoke.

  ‘This is WhiteMoon, meaning Moon Princess. WhiteMoon please meet Angel?’ Stroking her under the chin as he introduced her.

  ‘I’m pleased to meet you WhiteMoon.’ She looked him in the eyes as he spoke.

  Their in his mind was WhiteMoon. ‘Angel NightAura has told me a lot about you and how you saved her. Thank you for doing that and letting this happen.’

  ‘That’s alright but I’m thinking we might not have had a choice in the matter, but thank you.’ He turned to Maive as she was coming over to him with her dragon.

  ‘Angel this is WhiteFire.’ He could see the smile on her face as she introduced him.

  Angel looked into WhiteFires eyes and he could see why he was called that. His eyes where a bright red the colour of fire. ‘I am pleased to meet you WhiteFire.’

  ‘Hello Angel you helped our Aura, thank you. She is our centre and if we had lost her it would have been bad for us, thank you.’ Lowering his head to Angel.

  Angel went over to Shylyn who was still scratching her dragon. ‘Are you happy Shylyn you are so quite? Is everything ok?’

  Looking at Angel the tears came to her eyes.’ Thank you for bringing me the most precious gift in the world, Angel this is WhiteStar.’

  ‘Hello WhiteStar I hope you will be happy here with all of us. I can see you have made Shylyns day.’ He was holding Shylyn as she was still crying.’ There was a tear in Angel’s eye as he held her.

  ‘Angel Aura has told us of your bond with her, this made us think about what that would be like. I thought it would be good to try and now that I have meet Shylyn, Aura was right in doing this. I am pleased you found Aura for if you hadn’t we would not have found your friends. Thank you.’ WhiteStar put his head done and gave Shylyn a nudge. Shylyns dragon being white like the others means I will have to look at other ways of telling them apart. Let’s see WhiteStar is pure white exactly like WhiteFire and WhiteMoon. With WhiteFire It is the eyes that tell as his are red like fire. He is strong like Maive, they are our guardians. They will protect the rest of us with there lives if they can.

  Now WhiteMoon, her eyes are silver like a full moon at night. They tend to make you feel as if she can see into your soul. To see that you are well inside and out. Medwin and WhiteMoon are our careers and will see to our health so we are fit for battle.

  Now WhiteStar his eyes twinkle like a star, in his eyes I can see a thinker. Shylyn and he are the thinkers and will think through a situation to insure we all came out in one peace.

  Witch leaves me and NightAura, but what are we in this little group. There are Medwin and WhiteMoon who are the ones who will care for us. Then Maive and WhiteFire, who are our guardians who will protect us,. Shylyn and WhiteStar are the thinkers and will think through a situation.

  Now NightAura and me we would have to be the centre in the group. We will hold us all together and direct our energies in what ever direction it is needed. But what will that be, we’ll just have to wait and see, for the moment we need to be with our dragons and learn about each other.

  Spending the afternoon learning and showing what we learned in the magic studies with Gavrie. Showing our dragons how to clear their magic paths was good. It felt right as we showed them how you had to go down inside yourself to the deepest you can to clear the paths. The next time we meet we will go into each other magic flow to make sure it is clear and we have not missed anything.

  It was getting late in the day when they decided they would have to go before they get missed. They each held their dragons before fare welling them goodbye.

  They were a happy group that headed back to the school for having their own dragons had changed them all. There was joy in their lives now, joy of a kind they would never have thought existed. They headed through half the decks before they come to that one spot in the magic that was different from the rest.

  Angel stopped and looked at the spot. There’s something not right about the spot; I just can’t think what it is. ‘Can any of you see what’s wrong around this spot in the spell?’

  The others where looking at it’ when Shylyn spoke. ‘The spell looks weaker than the rest of it. You can see how the pattern is stronger around that spot; it is darker than the rest. I think it has been weakened somehow.’

  Angel had a closer look and seeing what Shylyn could see agreed. ‘The pattern has been weakened but how. The wizard who could see the pattern in the spell would have to be great to even affect it at all. This spell holding the school is one of incredible power.’

  Medwin looking closer to see what he could; looking with their magic to see the spell was really very hard focusing on the spell in that one spot. ‘This is hard looking this long at the spell but I think I can tell that it's not natural the spell weakening, if that were the case there would be other spots. We haven’t come across any others.’

  ‘Come on we’ll have to try and see if Gavrie will let us look in the library. We might be able to find something on the spell there.’ Moving off as he finished.

  They got to the gate leading into the school and so were now going to have make sure nobody can see them get back in. Angel went to the gate and opened it just a peep and looked through the gap to see who was there.

  Finding it clear he called the others through. ‘Come on quickly there is hardly a
nybody here so we should be able to get through unseen.’

  ‘Angel lets find the library now before having tea, then we’ll know where to go after?’ Shylyn headed off at a quicker pace.

  They hurried off to find the library. Running into the hall they bumped into Gavrie. ‘Where are you four off to in such a hurry, may I ask?’ A stern look on his face.

  ‘Sir we wanted to look at the library if we can. We wanted to see if there was anything on Nirvana?’ Angel looking worried as he asked.

  ‘Well being so young I am not sure if you are ready for that just yet. Why do you want to know about the school?’ Now the look on his face was more questioning.

  ‘It’s how Nirvana is stuck to the rock face that we want to know about, do you know how it is stuck there sir?’ Gesturing at the school and the rock face outside.

  ‘Ok I will tell you what I know so come along to the meal hall and we’ll eat as I tell you what I know.’ Walking into the hall knowing they will be following.

  Angel and the others quickly followed suit and soon where settled and eating as the head started to tell what he knew. ‘I have not looked at every book in the library so there could be more I don’t know. There are legends of how Nirvana came to be stuck on the rock face but some of those are a bit far fetched.’ Taking a bite of some bread as he spoke.

  ‘All I know is that Nirvana has been here for over a thousand years and at one time dragons lived in the caves on the dragon decks. For how long no one knows, then the wizard school moved here and the dragons moved over to the far end of the great valley. I have come across no records of why they moved or when they moved.’ Standing up he moved to go but stopped and looked at them.

  ‘One of the legends that are around, talk about powerful wizards or what ever they were. It is said there were great Wizards who were supposed to live here in the Dragon Decks. It is said there was a great battle and they were all destroyed and so the Dragon Decks were abandoned but years after wizards decided to make it the Wizard School.’ Turning and moving off as he finished talking.