by Platt, S. P.
‘They would be able to keep the portal open for a good hour before they would have to close it as their magic would get very weak if they kept it open any longer. So with the amount of creatures coming in at each attack and that is not counting the ones attacking the Hatchery and the Riders School and here? They are using a lot of wizards to keep it open. If we could find it and fix those Renegade Wizards and stopping them we would be able to see our dragons without having to miss the fighting.’ Angel looked at them waiting.
‘How will we stop at least ten wizards when we still haven’t finished one wizard. We still have a long way to go yet. We will have to keep looking, as there must be more books?’ Shylyn stood up as she finished.
‘Yes you’re right let’s put this book back and make sure we remember where it comes from. I think someone will have to write the number of the isle and how far down it is. Then I think we had better get back for evening meal.’ Medwin gave the book to Angel as they headed back to the place where the book came from.
Medwin climbed and Angel throws the book up to Medwin so that it went back in the right place. They gathered up their things and headed down to the meal hall as they were still hungry.
Contents
A Revealing Glow
After the meal they sat in their common room and thought on the portal the Renegades were opening. There was not a lot of talking, as hearing of how many wizards it takes to open a portal. They had an uphill battle to think of a way to stop ten full grown wizards.
They were trying to think of ways and they were not having the best results. Angel thought of maybe trying to let the teachers know the portal for the creatures was very close as to try and control that many creatures over a long distance would not be advisable, for the creatures would start to go different ways to what the Renegades would want them to go.
How would you go about telling a teacher the portal would only be just off the horizon so they could not tell where they came from. If they knew they would be able to get some wizards there as Dragon Riders would not be able to stop wizards.
We’ll have to think of another way, if only there was a way to be able to tell the teachers. They would want to know how we come to that conclusion. We just would not be able to tell them and that would get us into a lot of trouble.
No this is our fight no one else’s as they don’t have dragons to ride. Our Dragon Riders would have to contend with unruly dragons which they do when it was absolutely necessary. We are going to have to get our magic stronger so we can do it. In the mean time the attacks are just going to keep on coming.
Angel yawned as his thoughts turned to sleep. ‘Come on I think it might be time for bed, maybe sleeping on the problem might just find a solution. Let’s see what the morning brings.’
They all got up and headed off to bed, and dreams of dragons and creatures. The morning came with another storm brewing out at sea. The lighting playing in the dark gray clouds looked really great. Being able to sit and watch a storm like this helped relax Angel. It was the lighting in the air it charged everything and it made him and his friends feel good.
At lest with the storm here the Renegade would not be able to come and the Renegades would not be able to open portals and let the creatures through. They might get a couple of day’s peace with this storm.
They all walked down for breakfast to find Gavrie waiting there for them. ‘Good morning I think I will join you for breakfast this morning. With this storm brewing I think we’ll not have any trouble with creature attacks. From what we can tell with the weather spells this one is here for at lest a couple of days. Come let’s get something to eat and sit?’
Gavrie walks ahead of them and they look at each other with surprised look. Angel spoke very quietly as they followed behind. ‘We must be careful for Gavrie is keeping a close eye on us. We must watch what we say when talking to him.’
Medwin, Shylyn and Maive nod their heads as they stand in line to get something to eat. They could see Gavrie was in a good mood so something must be up. Angel was wandering just what. He’s been keeping a close eye on us for I see him looking at us when he thinks we’re not looking.
Gavrie turned with his plate and looked at the four. ‘Come on you are going to need more than what you have on your plate. I’ve been keeping watch on what food you lot have been eating and it’s more than what is on your plate there. When you’ve got enough come over and sit with me?’
They watched him go, turning they went back in line to fill their plates. They knew he was right, for they were hungry. They had been finding they had been eating more and more each day. Turning to the others Angel in quite tones spoke. ‘I’ve been wandering if it was normal for us to eat this much and I find I’m still hungry when I’ve finished eating. I think we might be going to find out.’
Shylyn looked at Maive and she nodded so Shylyn spoke. ‘We’ve been eating so much after the meals we have been worried. We go and get snacks some nights from the kitchen just to keep us going. What about you guys?’
Medwin spoke before Angel could. ‘The same but it’s in the morning we find it hits us, the early hours, so we go down and do the same. Come on Gavrie is looking our way so we better join him.’
They headed over to the table with Gavrie and could see he was smiling at them as they sat down. ‘Well that looks a lot better than what you had on the plate before, now dig in and we’ll talk when you’ve finished.’
Angel could see Gavrie’s plate was full but not quite as full as theirs. They all ate in silence till the meal was finished, before Gavrie looked at them and spoke. ‘Now I suppose you’ve been wandering why you have been so hungry of late?’
‘We have been eating a lot and finding we raid the kitchen each night, why is that?’ Shylyn got in before the others as she was worried. She could tell the others were just as worried which made her feel a little better.
‘There is nothing to worry about and have you noticed there is always plenty of food in the kitchen, you lot are not the only ones. All first year students do the same its part of the process of learning your magic.’ He smiled at them as they gave him a surprised look.
‘Magic takes a lot of your energy and it needs replacing, you do this when you eat. All the food you have eaten has not put any weight on you now has it?’ He waited as they thought about what he had just told them.
‘We had wandered why we were not putting weight on, but just put it down to all the work we had been doing and with the creature attacks loading the lances and carrying them over to the wizards. We never thought about our magic using our bodies’ energy.’ Angel felt relieved as he answered.
‘Now you can go to the kitchen at the times during the night it is opened. The kitchen staff has been commenting on the food that is going. The kitchen is open at three in the morning and it is open late to midnight. We wizards still have need of food as well as you young ones. Now I will see you in the Crystal Chamber in one hour.’ Gavrie got up as he finished and gave them a nod and went off out the door.
They sat there and looked at each other and then the next minute they were all laughing with the relief of knowing why they are always hungry. They finished and went out of the dinning hall and on to the main Dragon Deck. The storm was just about here as the lighting played just out at sea.
They went over to the edge of the building where there was an over hang that they could sit and not get wet. They felt good with now not worrying about all the food they have been eating.
Maive looked at Angel and spoke. ‘How long are we going to be eating like this, you seen Gavrie’s plate he did not have as much as us. I hope we are not different with us having dragons. Because we use their magic with ours it might make us different in we keep eating a lot more food all the time.’
‘I think we will settle down when we are older and are able to control the magic and the energy that it uses. Our bodies are young so hopefully we will settle when our magic settles in our bodies. At lest I hope it does.’ He smiled at M
aive as he said the last, he did not want them worried and what she had just said was something we might have a look at.
They sat there till the storm broke over the school and the rain just fell in buckets. They made a dash for the school and headed up to the Crystal Chamber were Gavrie was waiting for them. They entered and he sat them down in the centre of the room.
Gavrie came and stood in the centre of the circle and looked at Angel. ‘I am going to weave a spell around you Angel, it will not hurt you but will show me how your magic is working in your system. It is a way of seeing if the magic is flowing through all the organs in your body. Now just remain calm and I will start.
Angel looked surprised as the head wove the spell. The air around Angel started to move in a circle with little bright stars floating around him. They started to enter his body and Angel started to get up but Gavrie holds up his hand and indicated he remain seated.
Angel could feel his body start to shield him but it stopped almost as it started, his body could find no threat in what was happening so Angel just sat there and let it happen. The feeling he was getting was very strange not bad but just a strange sensation. The stars had now all gone into his body and Gavrie watched as an aura appeared around him.
The aura was a golden light in colour and pulsed with the rhythm of his heart. Gavrie looked at him and nodded his head as the glow got brighter and brighter. Soon they could not look at him and the others were starting to get worried. Gavrie looked surprised as the glow was now so bright they could not see Angel.
The look on Gavrie’s face was starting to show worry when all of a sudden the bright glow suddenly stopped. Angel was sitting like normal and looked at the expression on Gavrie’s face. He could tell by that look what happened was not normal. Gavrie quickly looked away at the others and composed himself before testing the others.
Gavrie tested Medwin next; he stood in front of Medwin and wove the same spell again. This time the glow was there and it was bright but not as bright as Angels, but it was still not normal. He then tested Maive and Shylyn, finding them the same as Medwin but again not as bright as Angel.
Angel looked at Gavrie and asked him if everything was alright. ‘Were we supposed to be that bright; it was the look on your face that told us something was not right? Are we ok’
Gavrie walked around the group and pondered what he would tell them, should he tell the truth or something else. He knew that what happened with them was not normal and that with Angel, that was scary. Never before had any wizard or student produced a result like that.
He would have to decide very quickly, for they were starting to show fear of the results. They had seen his face after what happened with Angel; it wasn’t bad it just showed their magic was very strong for the spell to react that way. He must tell them for he has seen they are different from other wizards.
‘The spell I wove was what I first said it was, to see how your magic was working in your system. Let me tell you what normally happens, the spell worked the right way with the little stars going into your body. They will go into your magic system and see that it is working through the whole body and not just part of.’ The four were all ears as he told them of the spell. ‘There is supposed to be a glow around the body and any part that the magic is not flowing through laves a dull patch. But what happened with you four tells me your magic is flowing through every part of your body and that your magic is very, very powerful.’
The four looked at Gavrie and suddenly relaxed for it meant they where ok, just their magic was strong. Gavrie could see the relief on their faces, he thought about telling them no other wizard had ever had a result like that but he could see they were happy with what he had just told them.
If he told them no one had ever done that, it might put them off their magic and he did not want that to happen. These four student wizards were different from any wizard ever born. They shared their magic with each other and that has never happened before. He had the feeling they were going to be the wining of this fight with the Renegades. He was not going to stop them from finding their full potential.
He was a bit shaken with the results so decided to let them off for the rest of the day. They ran from the room and headed for their secret room, for they felt it was time to go and see their dragons. There was a storm out there but their dragons would not mind and they could sit in the dragons cave and talk about what Gavrie just told them.
They grabbed a couple of baskets of food to take with them and headed down to their room. They called their dragons to let them know they were on their way. They found their dragons on the deck where they usually land. The storm was now in its full fury but the dragons didn’t mind coming.
They produced the travelling bubble to cover themselves and climbed on up on to their dragons. The dragons had no trouble with the storm and did what they usually do and go down under Nirvana and then back up on to their deck, heading straight for their cave.
They found the dragons cave had been made very comfortable for them. The dragons had found a nice side cave near the entrance to the cave and had found it warm. They had found some Fire Crystal and placed it around the hot areas so they could heat up and keep it warm.
Angel and the others sat in the middle and started to tell their dragons of what Gavrie had done this morning. ‘We knew our magic was strong but the expression on Gavrie’s face told us he had never seen it do that before. I think it picked up on the open link to your magic and so made it very strong. We need to keep an eye on Gavrie or he will become suspicious’
Aura spoke into their minds her feelings of what happened. ‘We can feel the magic in you is very strong and strongest of all in you Angel. You are the control power in our magic, you can use our magic at will but we cannot use your magic, it is just too strong for use to handle. I think you will find it the same with Medwin, Maive and Shylyn, they will give you their magic channelling it through to you but would not be able to use your magic if you tried to give it to them.’
Angel was about to deny it when Medwin spoke. ‘Aura’s right Angel, I can feel the power of your magic the times we lent you it when fixing the old spell holding the school to the rock face. Angel we are here for you, our magic is to help you when it is needed. Sure we are strong but our strength is in giving it to you to use when it is needed most. I can feel it when we did the last time.’
‘Medwin’s right we are the poles of your power and when you need it we give to you freely. It felt right when we gave you our strength the other day. It felt right, I felt really good for this is what our power is. We are your poles of power.’ Shylyn had a gleam in her eye as she spoke of the feelings she got when her power flowed through to Angel.
‘Come Angel you feel it when we send it to you, that warm cosy feeling that comes with the giving. It’s right and when we can fight individual like we did against the creatures but when there is a real need we will give our magic to you for you to direct where needed.’ Maive came over and gave Angel a hug as she finished talking.
‘Ok lets get off this subject and talk about what is next, and I think that is going to be when the Renegade is here next. We must feel and see the spell he is casting. Till then we have got to keep working on our shields and thinking about what happens when we get tired. If we end up fighting the Renegade and we get tired we will die. We can’t let that happen ok?’ Angel was all fired up as he spoke for they had to be ready and he knew it.
They practiced their shields and as they did this Angel had an idea. ‘I just had a thought what if we combined our shields into one big one that encircled all of us. Lets see if what you were saying about me directing the magic from all of us, lets see if we can create a large shield to protect us all.’
The others nodded their heads and agreed they would try. They all gathered around Angel and gave their magic to Angel. He let the magic flow through his body and then he let it flow through Aura and then Medwin and WhiteMoon, then going to Shylyn and WhiteStar and the last of all out to Maive
and WhiteFire.
The magic flowed through them all and the shield formed around them all. The storm was in full fury with lighting hitting the deck a lot of times. Angel got them all to walk out into the storm. They went out with their dragons in single file and the shield never wavered once.
Out on the Deck the storm tried to blow them around but could not budge them. The lighting hit the shield that many times but still could not penetrate it. The shield was now stronger than when it was just around the individual. Angel tried a new idea and indicated to Medwin that he walk back into the cave.
Medwin walked out of the shield but found the shield peeled of from the main one and enveloped him as he walked into the cave. Now he got them all to peel away from each other and once they were apart, they found they still had a shield up around them and the lighting could not penetrate it at all.
Angel got them to all to come back together, he could not talk or yell at them for the thunder of the storm drowned them out, but used Aura to talk with the other dragons. They all walked back into a group and found the shield joined together as each one came back.
Angel indicated they go back inside and once in there, sat in a circle with their dragons just behind them. The dragons’ heads were placed just beside their riders. Angel had a big grin on his face as he sat down, their shields no longer active.
‘Well that worked very well indeed, with the combined magic the shields are a lot stronger and we can peel of and still have the shield up and it’s from the combined shield. That is another plus and something that will come in handy when we confront the Renegade.’ They all agreed as Angel finished.
They sat there for a little while before they realized it was lunch time, they also found after playing with their shields they were very hungry. They sat there and ate while their dragons watched.