Dragon Rider (DragonMage Saga)

by Platt, S. P.

  Aura come into Angels head as he was watching what was happening. ‘Are you alright we felt feelings you are having and got worried about you. What is happening we hear and sense there are strange creatures around? We sense their evil and we worry for you all?’

  ‘It’s alright the wizards and my mother, are destroying them now as we speak. There were about fifty of them but there’s only a few left now. It will be all back to normal soon so don’t worry.’ Angel felt her concern ease as he explained what happened.

  Angel was about to go and see his mother as she had come on down and had landed. But a look comes over his face, a thought that needed to be asked. ‘Aura can you feel the dragon. Is the dragon there now or are they coming?’

  ‘They have just come back now as the dragon had let us know they were coming, that’s why we are here with you now. There is something else you need to know the dragon says there is another wizard with this one. There are now two Renegade Wizards working on the spell.’ Aura’s feelings changed as she told him about the wizards.

  Angel turned to the others. ‘Have you heard there are now two wizards we have to face? We must go and see what is happening if we can get away. The deck is going to be hard to cross with NightWing there over by our door. I just hope mums not going to stay long.’

  They went to see were his mother was and found her with Gavrie just coming into the school. She looked at Angel and gave him a smile as along with Gavrie they entered the meal hall. This meant she was going to be here for a while so they were not going to get to their dragons today.

  Angel had a thought and called his friends to follow him. They headed off over to the wall of the dragon cave and Angel looked around to make sure no one was looking. There he sat down close to the wall and indicated the others should do the same.

  He explained what he was going to do. ‘Let’s feel the spell from here and see if the spell has been tampered with.’

  They each put their hands to the spell and let their magic see the spell and feel along it. They each tried but were not able to feel if the spell had been tampered with. Angel turned and looked at them. He could feel the spell but was not quite able to get the feel of it at a distance.

  ‘Come on let’s hold hands and call your dragons in to this as we’re going to need them as well. Now when we are all here and I can feel each other send the magic to me and I will see if I can feel anything. Right here we go.’ Angel let his magic flow through himself, and then drew on the others magic one by one.

  As he drew their magic to him he let his awareness of the old spell flow along it. As he travelled along the spell he marvelled at the complexity of the spell. It would have taken a lot of wizards to create this spell for it to last so long.

  As he travelled the spell getting the feel of how the spell could have been put together, he was struggling with the enormity of such a spell. He felt as if he was going to get lost and started to panic when Aura was there beside him. He could feel her presence and started to relax.

  The spell he could feel was right that’s all he could say it felt right, this feeling carried on as he travelled along past each deck slowly. Then he came to the area that had been attacked by the renegade and found there was a difference in that little spot. He could feel were his group had fixed it or enhanced the spell to fix itself, that’s what he felt, they helped it fix itself.

  As he looked at what they had done he could feel there was a slight difference as his and Auras magic was different to the old spell. It still helped it but the difference was still there in the spell at that point. Just as he was about to move along, there was a sudden collapse at that point and Angel could tell, that what he and the others had done to heal the spell had just been undone.

  Angel suddenly collapsed as he comes out of the magic. The others were there very quickly and brought him around. Shylyn helped him to stand. ‘What happened we could feel you through our magic but not what you could see?’

  Angel just shivered and looked at them with a blank look on his face. Maive quickly got them moving talking as they went. ‘We must get him back to our room and let him come out of it slowly. It looks as if he got a shock and was pushed out of the spell; Aura is in the same way so we are going to have to see what happens.’

  They started back to the school when Gavrie come out the door and saw them coming. As they approached where Gavrie was standing he looked at them and could see the blank look in Angel’s eyes. He went into immediate action and picked Angel up and told the others to follow.

  Following Gavrie as he flew through the halls heading to a part of the school where they had not been before. He stopped at a door and pushed it open and was through before they could see in. As they come to the door and walked in they could see it was a room for sick wizards.

  Gavrie had Angel laying on a bed with another wizard standing over him and looking into his eyes. The wizard looked back at Gavrie and spoke quietly to him, then turned back to Angel. Gavrie spoke back to the other wizard before coming over to them.

  ‘What happen to knock Angel into magical shock I need to know so we can treat him?’ Gavrie had a worried look on his face as he asked.

  Medwin looked at the others and then back to Gavrie, he was thinking about how to tell him with out letting him know all. ‘We went over to the wall in the corner and sat looking at the rock face. We know there is a very powerful spell holding the school to the rock face, so we sat there and with our magic we let it feel the spell.’ Medwin stopped with a worried look on his face.

  Shylyn then carried on. ‘We could not feel it very well so Angel told us to join our magic with his magic so he might be able to see it. So we did and everything was fine for a time, as Angel told us what he could see of the spell.’ Shylyn started to falter in telling Gavrie of what happened.

  Maive then finished. ‘Suddenly Angel stopped talking and just collapsed beside us but we don’t know why or what caused it. Will he be alright we didn’t know what to do?’ Maive suddenly burst into tears as she finished telling him.

  Gavrie looked at them and could see they were very worried. They had done something no other wizard would think of doing; they shared their magic with each other in complete trust. These four were something he or any other wizard would have thought impossible.

  He was going to have to hide this from other wizards and he was going to have to talk to them about it as well. He was not thinking it was bad but it’s just something they have never come across and some wizards might not like it. Also he would like to see where it leads to for they were looking at the spell that holds the school and as far as he knows no one has ever been able to do that.

  He suddenly comes back to Medwin, Maive and Shylyn looking at him with fear on there faces. ‘He will be fine it’s just magical shock meaning he has used his magic just a bit to much and did not know he was getting very tired. The magic in him pulled him out of the spell and in doing so it put him into shock.’ Turning and looking at Angel as he lay on the bed.

  Gavrie turned back to them and could see they were near to collapsing as well and told the other wizard he thought they would be better of in bed in this room along with angel. The wizard looked at them nodded his head and then indicated the other beds to them.

  *

  Gavrie left them to the wizard and walked out thinking of how to let them do what they have been doing but keeping them from getting hurt. He could not stop them for if he forbids them, they would just find away around him so he was going to have to work with them.

  There was the other part in him that wanted to see where this was going to take them in the long run, and with the first attack on the school he feels it won’t be the last and they just might be what could be needed to stop what’s happening.

  Heading back to his room he has now got to let Tish know what has happened to Angel but also reassuring her that he will take care of him and his friends. Tish would be worried but he is sure he can get her not to worry and let him keep an eye on them. These
are strange days and they are going to get stranger still.

  *

  Back in the sick room Medwin, Maive and Shylyn had got out of bed after the wizard had gone to get food for them. They had gone over to Angel’s bed and stood around looking at him. They could see Angel looking at them but not seeing them, the wizard had told them that he will come out of it, when his magic had settled back down after the shock.

  It was the following morning when Angel finally looked at them and this time they could see he was looking at them. ‘Angel you’re back with us, we were so worried about you when you collapsed on us. How do you feel now?’ Maive smiled as the relief on her face showed.

  ‘I feel weak and hungry and I feel as though something was torn out of me.’ He tried to sit up as he spoke but was not succeeding so lay back down.

  ‘We could feel our magic flowing into you to help see the spell but we could not feel the spell but we could sense you following the spell till the moment you collapsed.’ Medwin looked at him with a sparkle in his eyes at the feeling he got as they followed Angel along the spell.

  Angel tried to sit up again and was having trouble till Shylyn helped him. ‘Thank you I feel so weak I hope that food will be here soon?’

  ‘It should be on the way, the wizard who looks after you says the shock will make you very hungry. He also told us at our age we should not be doing so much magic as it will put us in to magical shock. This is what happened to you.’ Medwin found he was just as hungry.

  ‘It wasn’t magical shock or it was but not caused by using too much magic. The weakened bit of spell that we fixed I came to it and could feel that our magic had healed it and was just going to move when it collapsed and that’s what knocked me into magical shock. The Renegade Wizards broke what we fixed, we have to get back there when they go and try and fix it otherwise they will make it bigger and we won’t be able do anymore.’ There was a panicky look on his face as he spoke to them about it. He knew they had to repair it before it got much bigger and this time they were going to have to do it better.

  He lay back down on the bed and his thoughts went to Aura to see how she was for he could remember her coming into help him when he started to panic so she would have been there when he was knocked into shock. Then she was there with him and he could feel she had suffered the same thing. Aura had gone into shock as well.

  ‘Are you alright I can feel you suffered the magical shock as well?’ His feelings were threatening to overpower him but he managed to control them.

  ‘I am ok now just hungry like you and I have some food here beside me that the others caught for me. I will be strong soon so don’t worry. The others have told me the wizards have gone and from what they got from their dragon. The wizards are very weak from what they did to the spell. Whatever happened to us might have got them as well. That part of the spell just broke so fast; I could see what you were doing when the spell broke.’ Aura now felt that everything was better as they come out of the shock.

  Just then the wizard returned with the meal and he had brought a lot. He knew they would be very hungry for magical shock you always come out of it hungry. They all sat around Angel’s bed eating and talking of what they felt. They also told Angel what they told Gavrie, for he had seen them bringing Angel in. So they had to tell him something and this was the safest thing to tell him.

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  Magical Shock

  It was two days before Angel was allowed to go back to his room, but was still only allowed to do light work with magic. So he just went into clearing the paths but found them perfectly clear. Other times when he has done magic he has always found little blocks but this time nothing. He was thinking maybe the shock cleared the paths for him.

  Deciding he didn’t need to clear his paths he might go up to the library and see what he could learn. Now they knew the only way to free the dragon was to kill the Renegade so they were back to looking for spells that would help them.

  Heading up to the library he bumped into Medwin, Maive and Shylyn all heading in the same direction. ‘Haven’t you lot lessons in the Crystal Chamber this morning. I thought I would go to the library while you were in the chamber and I would find some spells or try to anyway?’

  ‘Gavrie has been called away to a meeting so we are to use our time in the library getting to know how to find spells when needed.’ Medwin telling Angel as they all headed there.

  ‘Gavrie told us to make sure you did no magic and to keep clearing the magic paths.’ Shylyn was smiling as she told him knowing full well that Angel would not listen.

  Getting to the library Angel was telling them about looking for spells on healing whether it’s a person or a spell that’s what they needed to find, also weapon spells as well. They carried on looking at the master spell books hopping there might be books with spells to help them.

  Their dragons were always close in their minds and there to help. Aura could see Angel was still a little worn out but was otherwise fine. The same Angel found of Aura, they were going to be like this for a couple more days so gave them time to finds spells.

  After the meal there was a call of dragon that rang through the halls, Angel had known who that would be and headed for the door out to the deck. Sure enough it was his mother even he knew she was the only Dragon Rider who would come to the school so often.

  Getting to the door he was about to go through when his mother come walking in. ‘Angel you’re ok let me look at you, oh yes still a bit drawn but the colour is coming back that’s good. Your friends look none the worse for wear, I’m glad your friends are fine?’ She was leading them into the meal hall where she got some drinks for them all and sat at the table and waited.

  There was no talk for a while till Tish spoke. ‘Well?’ She stared them down as she waited for there reasons.

  ‘We’re ok mum we lost ourselves in the magic and I fell into Magical Shock so don’t worry. Now come on how many attacks has the Hatchery and Rider School had since that first one?’ He side stepped her worries with another worry of hers, the attacks.

  ‘We’ve had four attacks since and each one there are more of the creatures from the Dark Realms. The Renegade Wizards are opening gates into that realm and bringing more of them at each attack.’ Her face showed them she was very worried about the attacks but quickly smiled to cover it.

  ‘Is that where Gavrie is now working with the riders to try and stop them opening gates. They surly aren’t able to open the gates to far away for to try and control them would be hard?’ As he told her this Angel had an idea which he and his friends would check up on before telling Gavrie.

  Tish could see he was fine and was starting to look tired so decided she would go and let them get some sleep. ‘I'll go now Angel but you be very careful and that goes for your friends as well. You are the first at this age to come here so don’t go trying to hard let it come to you and you will be fine. I will be back to see you when I can, your brothers might be here sooner.’

  They went with her to the door and watched her left into the air and go. Walking back to their rooms Angel told them what he was thinking. ‘Something mum said about the creatures needing to be controlled made me think of something. To control the creatures over a great distance and make sure they got to where they needed to be, they would have to open the gate close to where the attack was going to take place.’

  Medwin then come into the conversation very quickly with what he thought Angel was about to say. ‘They must have wizards close out at sea and over the mountains close to the hatchery. If the Dragon Riders put patrols out in wide circle they would come across the Renegade Wizards maybe before they could open the gates.’

  ‘Yes so if they worked out about how far they could control the creatures they might be able to catch the wizards. But our riders would need to carry wizards to help fight the Renegade ones. We’ll have to tell Gavrie when he gets back that’s if they aren’t already doing that.’ Angel gave a large yawn and headed of up to bed it had been a long day
and the next few days were going to be boring with not being able to do real magic.

  They headed off to see their dragons as there was nothing for them to do here. While on their way they contact their dragons and get them to meet them at the deck where the dragon usually is. They walk the distance very quickly as they want to be with their dragons. They get to the area of the spell to find they don’t need their magic to see where it is. Where the spell is being attacked, there is now a hole in the spell where rocks have fallen from the rock face.

  This was not good and they knew they were going to have to do something now with it before it got worse. Angel went up to the spell and raised his hands to it; he places them on the edges. Standing there with hands just touching he let his magic feel the edges of the wound for that’s what it felt like to him.

  ‘Angel be careful your magic is still not the best after what happened before, let us join with you just to ease your magic?’ Shylyn looked worried and went to stand next to him and get him to take their help.

  ‘It’s alright I was not going to try anything at the moment, I just needed to touch and feel the edges of the wound and see if I can get to feel the magic in it’s own form for that is the only way we are going to fix it permanently.’ He come away and looked at them, they had that worried look in their faces. But they did understand what they had to do and they knew they were going to go into the spell with him next time as they would not let him go by himself or with just Aura.

  ‘We can have another try at fixing it and this time I will try and enter the magic as it heals the wound.’ With determination on his face he looked at Medwin, Shylyn and Maive knowing they will be there to guard him and keep his strength up.

  ‘Well if we’re going to do this it had better be now in case the Renegades come back.’ Medwin looking a bit (here we go again) as he walked over to stand beside Angel.

  They all stood beside him as he gathered their magic to help strengthen him, their dragons were there with them all the way. Angel placing his hands on the edges of the spell he let his magic come to the tips of his fingers.