by Platt, S. P.
Gavrie looked at Angel and sent him back to his room but as Angel turned to leave he spoke. ‘Don’t tell my mother where the information comes from as she might worry?’ He then turned and headed back to his room, knowing the time was almost here to face the Renegade wizard. He just hoped they were ready.
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Aura Reveals Herself
Gavrie had everyone down in the hall where the warning alarm sends everyone. As he entered Tish entered behind him with the other Dragon Riders following. He went to the front and called for quite. He looked around at all the tried wizards and student wizards.
They have had a bad couple of days with the attacks and only just survived them, thanks to Angels little group. Now they were about to face them again and he is not sure how many this time. Now he had to tell them they were going to have to go through it all again.
‘They will come again and very soon but we have a chance to stop them here now. The Dragon Riders will go up and over the mountain while a group of wizards will move around the mountain in the travel bubbles. We move now, GO.’ Gavrie moved down the middle of the isle and out with Dragon Riders following.
Angel moved out with the rest of the wizards, moving onto the deck where he was just in time to see his mother and brothers lifting of. The wizards that were going around the mountain were casting their spells to form their travelling bubbles. The rest would get ready to face what creatures would get through.
The quickest way for the wizards was to go around the school end of the mountain and through the valleys to where Angel had told Gavrie the portal was being opened. The Dragon Riders would be the first there and would have to hold out till the wizards arrived.
Gavrie was staying here to run the battle that would be sure to come, as he was not hopeful the Dragon Riders could keep the Renegade wizards from opening it. Until the wizards arrived they would have to hold as long as they can. Now he needed to talk a little with Angel and his friends.
Angel was standing by the mountain wall with his friends as Gavrie stood back and watched. He just could not see what they were doing just standing there with their hands touching the wall. They seamed as though they were a million miles away, they were up to something.
Gavrie gave them a little longer before he moved over to them. He stood behind them and waited, they never even heard him come up behind them so he just waited. It was a little longer before they started to register what was around them. As he was about to speak, he heard Angel say, it’s still ok so we are lucky at the moment.
As he heard Angel speak they turned and registered surprise at Gavrie standing right behind them. ‘Headmaster we never heard you come up, we were just relaxing with a few exercises.’
He looked at them and could see they were not telling the truth, but he did not pull them up on that. He did not speak but just looked at them, he felt they were holding things back and he would like to know what they were hiding from him, but how does he get them to tell him.
‘Angel how did you know the Renegades were over the mountain opening another portal?’ He wanted them to tell him but he was sure they would not until they were ready.
‘We are not yet ready and when we are you will be first to know, please trust us for now?’ Angel just stood and looked at Gavrie waiting and hoping he does not force the issue.
Gavrie wanted to trust them yet the situation calls for answers that at the moment Angel and his friends seam to know. But if he forced them to tell him he would loose their trust and he knew they were very special and he needed to build them up.
‘Ok Angel I will trust you will tell me when it becomes necessary and I hope it will be soon for I believe time might be running out with the attacks getting bigger all the time. Please don’t leave it too late?’ he looked at them one more time and walked away just hopping he had made the right choice.
Angel watched him walking back to the school, thinking to himself if he had done the right thing. Can we stop this Renegade that wants to destroy the old spell holding Nirvana. We must be right; he must have faith in our little group. We will do this, (looking at his friends as he thought about what they have to do.)
Angel looked up the mountain face and could not see the Dragon Riders anymore; they were up over the mountain and heading for the Renegades. Soon they will know what will happen as they should be almost at the area. After Aura had told Angel of the Renegades coming they had gone up to see where they were. They were going to keep watch.
‘Aura, are the Dragon Riders there yet?’ Angel waited for Aura to let him know and he hoped they would be there on time to stop them.
‘I can see them coming down now and they will be there very soon. The Renegades have almost got the portal open, so you will get some creatures. The Dragon Riders are almost there and are starting to open fire with the lances.’ Aura was giving them a running talk on the battle as it starts.
‘The Dragon Riders are trying not to hit the dragons and are aiming for the Renegade wizards. The portal is opening now and the creatures are pouring through, wait the portal is closing again. One of the Renegades has been hit and he is one of those that control the portal.’ Aura paused as she moved down to see a bit easier.
‘How close are the Dragon Riders now and can you see any sign of the wizards in their bubbles?’ As he finished talking to Aura he quickly spoke to Maive.
‘Can you let Gavrie know there will be creatures on the way?’ He immediately went back to listening to Aura.
Maive ran to where Gavrie was sorting out the students. She came running up to him and spoke into his ear, as she did not want the students to hear what she was telling him. Gavrie nodded his head and sent Maive back, looking over at were Angel and the rest were.
Gavrie quickly yelled that creatures would be here very soon, as he finished there were students running all over the place. Now it all starts again I just hope our wizards get there to help the Dragon Riders before they get overwhelmed.
Angel was listening to Aura again as Maive ran back to their little group. Aura was back to giving a running commentary to Angel. Aura could feel the worry in him and knew it was for his mother and brother. ‘They are ok and are holding their own. The Renegades holding and controlling the dragons are the only ones fighting. So they don’t have to worry to much with the dragons fighting against them the Dragon Riders are starting to get close enough they can aim better at the Renegades.’ She was quite for a little as she watched the battle unfold.
Angel looked up and could see the small dots that meant creatures were coming down. As Angel looked around he could see other wizards looking up and pointing then they would run off and get ready. They moved into the cave so they were out of the way of the creatures.
As he was about to go back to Aura he suddenly thought if the other wizards seen them just standing in a little group and not fighting they would think something was going on. ‘Medwin, Shylyn, Maive I think we need to move inside out of the way so the rest of the wizards and students don’t see us doing nothing while they fight?’
They all nodded and moved over to the school and went inside and headed up to their room. They will work from here seeing what is happening. They got comfortable on the cushions and then went back to be with their dragons. Aura started letting Angel know what was happening.
‘Angel the portal is only opening for short times as the Renegades are casting the spell to open the portal keep getting disturbed and so lose their concentration and then the portal closes. Then they try and get it open again which takes them a little time, their goes your mother flying in close to get a better shot.’ There was a note of aw in Auras mind as she spoke of his mother.
Aura carried on with her commentary. ‘Her dragon is so powerful as he keeps taken shots and they are not hurting him. But your mother has taken a glancing blow and when that happened her dragon went berserk and flew real close to the portal and the Renegades trying to open it. The Renegades nearly fell of the dragons as they tried to duck.’ Angel co
uld feel the flinch as if Aura could feel every blow his mother and the other Dragon Riders took.
Angel looked out the window and could not see any creatures around there. So he came back and sat down and let Aura carry on. ‘At the moment there are only about 50 creatures getting through at a time for the portal is only opening for just a few minutes before the Dragon Riders disrupt them.’
‘Is there any sign of the wizards arriving to help for they should not be too long? They must get there soon?’ Angel had just an edge to his voice as he spoke to Aura.
‘There is no sign just yet but I will tell you just as soon as I see them. They have not lost any of the Renegades just yet but it must be a matter of time. Your mother is getting very close and has given some glancing blows. It is not enough to kill a Renegade but just enough to distract them form the spell and in doing so lose concentration and the portal closes. That really peeves them of as they were not expecting to be attacked. ‘Aura let me see what you see?’
Angel could suddenly hear what the Renegades’ were saying.
‘Wizards they are coming so let’s get out of here and now.’ Angel could hear the command in his mind as the Renegades were about to leave. But then there was a yell and one Renegade stood up on his dragon and commanded them to stay for fear of death.’ The Renegade looked around and could see more wizards coming but they were for the Dragon Riders.
‘We must hold till the creatures have gone through before we are allowed to go home so keep your line. We can not leave until there are plenty of creatures through that gate. So keep that portal open as long as you can, then you can go. All you others I want those Dragon Riders taken care off before their wizards get here.’ As he finished he gave his dragon a command to hold, or else.
‘Aura how is it you can hear what they say; you’re so far away from them?’ Angel was fascinated at what he could hear and see going on.
‘We have very good hearing but also their dragons, we can hear it through them but they don’t know we can hear them. It’s like you talking to the Renegades dragon, you could only do that because you can talk and understand us. But we don’t know why your dragons can’t talk to you or your riders.’ Aura went back to concentrating on what was happening.
Angel and his friends could see everything that was happening at the portal. They were amazed, with their ability to see and hear through their dragons. They had a ring side seat to what was happening by the portal. They could see things were starting to get very scary down there for his mother and brothers.
They could watch but do nothing else, so they just had to sit there and watch. The Renegade had got them back to work and concentrating on keeping the portal open for as long as they could.
They got the portal open again and the next lot of creatures comes flying through. The Renegades were able to keep it open again for only a very short time. The Dragon Riders were firing as close as they dear get, but did not help them was the fact they would not fire at a dragon that the Renegades sat on.
They fired at the Renegades only and so they had a smaller target to aim at. This still worked a bit as the Renegades that were keeping the portal open were nearly hit at times and so this made them lose their concentration. When this happened the portal would fall apart.
The dragon Riders could see far off in the distance the wizards were coming but they were still a ways off. Angel's mother Tish could see this and knew they would have to do something to keep the portal closed and not let any more creatures through. She could only estimate how many had already got through, and that number was still in the hundreds.
She needed to knock off at lest three to four Renegades to make them pack it in. She called her sons over for she had an idea on what they could do. They arrived over to her very quickly where she explained what they were about to do. ‘We are going to attack in very close so we will go out and come in with speed so we can try and make it hard for their spells to hit us. So let’s go.’
Angel watched as his mother and brothers peeled off out of the attacking group and then come in gathering speed as they did this. They headed right for the Renegades not stopping just heading straight at them. The Renegades seen them coming and tried to concentrate their fire at them.
Tish and her sons had no time to dodge the spells that were being cast at them and the lance fire that was also coming at them. Angel saw his mother and her dragon were taking all the attack of the Renegades. Tish’s dragon was able to withstand many shots that hit it but sooner or later it was going to get hit with a good one.
As they watched they were spell bound and in their minds they were wishing for them to get through. Then Tish’s dragon took a bad hit and it suddenly tumbled out of the sky and was heading for the ground. Angel yelled ‘NO’ standing up from his sitting position.
As Angel looked tears running down his face his perception of what was happening suddenly change and he was racing down at his mother and her dragon. He could feel Aura was darting down to them and would soon reach them. Aura came into his mind. ‘Get ready with a spell to save them, I will get as close as I can?’
Angel got ready with a spell that would hold their fall allowing her dragon to recover. As Aura come in very close his mother could see the dragon and a strange look come over her face. It would be one of surprise plus a joy in seeing a young dragon coming to help her.
Aura came in close as she could and in Angels mind as he watched his mother and NightWing falling. ‘Now you need to Holt their fall and soon as the ground is very close?’
Angel could see NightWing was still out to it and his mother hanging on. There was a serine look on her face as she and NightWing fell. Angel quickly drawing power from Aura gently sent a spell that would enfold them in a net. As the net infolded them it slowly started to pull up and stop their fall.
As they slowly stopped in mid air Tish looked at the young dragon and wandered what was happening. She was still a little bit stunned by the blasts that they had sustained. Here she was falling but she could feel them slowing down and there was a young dragon looking at her.
She could feel NightWing start to stir and as he slowly came out of the knock he received from the blasts the Renegades fired at them. The young dragon turned and flew off as NightWing come round. He immediately lifted his wings and gave them a wave and found them working.
Tish leaned over and gave him a rub to show him she was still here and was ok. She looked up to see far off in the distance the young dragon. She gave it a wave and mouthed a thank you. She turned NightWing around and they headed back up to the battle that was still raging up above.
Angel could see them flying back up to the battle. The Renegades still managed to open it for a few minutes until it was closed again by the distraction of one of the Renegades. But the Dragon Riders were wining for the portal was getting smaller each time.
There were not many creatures coming through now for the portal was getting smaller as the Renegades started to tire. Also they were starting to get very panicky as the wizards were almost there. The Renegade who held them there before tried to get them to carry on but he was out numbered.
The Renegades broke and flew off to get away from the wizards that had started to fire on them. The Dragon Riders and the wizards kept on firing and chasing them. They still had creatures to stop for as they came out of the portal they did not bother with the few Dragon Riders or Renegades and the coming wizards. They could sense masses of food just over the mountain and that’s where they went.
Angel and his friends came out of the link with their dragons and stood up and stretched their legs. ‘Are you ok that was very close with your mother. What will she think when she gets back and tells everyone a young dragon saved her and her dragons lives?’ Maive looked at Angel and gave him a pat on the back.
‘I don’t know what’s going to happen but I just could not leave them to die when I was able to save them with Auras help. Now did anybody count how many creatures the school was going to have to fight?’ A
ngel gave a big stretch and yawn as he finished.
Medwin nodded his head as he moved about to free up the muscles in his legs. ‘They are going to have to fight about 6 hundred of them but no big ones. The portal never got open long enough for the big ones to get through. Now what do we do go and join them or do we see if the Renegade is there?’
‘The wizards here should be able to handle that many creatures and with the spell we showed they will be fine.’ Shylyn was already moving to the door as she finished.
They all left their room and headed down to their secret room and the little hall to the next deck. They reached the meal hall when they felt they were hungry so went in to find no one there and so went and helped themselves. They needed food and now, so went through to the kitchen where they found bags and filled them up with food.
Getting to their room they stop to eat and build up their strength. The little magic that Angel had used had taken a little out of him and the others by the look as they were filling their mouths. He did the same thing and they soon found themselves finding a table to sit at and just eat.
During the meal they wandered about the battle that would be going on outside. ‘I feel guilty about just sitting here eating while they battle out there. Can’t we go there and help then we can sneak off and see the Renegade as he won’t know we have taken down the portal?’ Medwin said.
‘We should be able to do this quickly and then while the others are cleaning away the dead creatures we would slip away?’ Shylyns look telling them she was not happy about leaving their school friends to fend off the attack.
Maive stood and spoke before they decided. ‘There is the one question and that is how do we get to the cave with the spell on the walls?'