Night Dragon An Epic Fantasy Adventure - D.K. Holmberg Page 0,103
to withstand this.
It was calling on him, pulling upon him, and it was potent.
Almost too potent.
He tapped on the ice dragon, and he connected the ice dragon to the cold of the north, shooting it down toward him.
The ice dragon didn’t need his help with that, though. The ice dragon had his own way of connecting to the north and pulling that power down. All Jason did was add a hint of a connection to it, acting as a bridge, but even in that, it was probably unnecessary.
He tapped on the ice dragon’s side and they continued to circle.
In the distance, he saw movement on the outside of the city.
It was slow, a march toward the city itself.
There was a pull, and it reminded him of what he had seen of the people from Dragon Haven.
Dragon Souls.
They were moving slowly, lumbering, and he didn’t even need to latch onto the ice dragon’s eyesight in order to see what had happened to them. He could feel it, even if he wasn’t able to look down and see it.
“She’s calling her Dragon Souls,” he whispered.
Janeya looked over. “Why?”
Jason had no idea.
There was power calling to them, drawing off him, and he could feel it pulling, but he had no idea why or where it was coming from. There was considerable energy out around him.
I need to get into the city.
“Can you stay with the dragons?”
He pushed outward through a connection he shared with the dragons. All of the dragons. He needed them to circle and defend. Be prepared. The Dragon Souls could still attack.
Only… he didn’t know if they would. Or if they could. Not like this.
“Why?” Janeya asked.
“Because they are going to need your protection. And I have something else that I need to do.”
“What do you think you need to do?”
In the distance, Jason could feel the energy coming from someplace within Lorach, but he didn’t know what it was or where it came from. All he could tell was that there was power out there, and it was radiating toward him. It was incredibly powerful, drawing off him.
“I have to stop this before she drains all of the dragons.”
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Jason focused, and he could feel energy flowing around him.
His old friend was there, and his mood matched Jason’s mood. Rage.
It had been about the dragons and the eggs, but Jason had felt that strange pulling when he had come across each of the eggs. It had drawn toward Lorach, and even after the egg hatched, that pulling sensation was there.
And it was there now.
It pulled toward the tower.
The tower.
It was a place of power.
He had felt it when he’d been captive here. Not only that, but he had used it when captive here. Jessica used that power now. Whatever Jessica intended, he needed to stop it.
He looked over at Janeya, holding her gaze for a minute, and then he jumped.
He found the iron dragon, swirling, glowing.
But draining.
Like all of the misfits.
He tapped his hand against the iron dragon’s side and connected to him. When he did, there was a surge of power that connected them, joining them together, and he held his glove against the iron dragon’s side.
“We need to find her,” he said.
The iron dragon streaked off, moving with a flicker of molten hot flame.
From there, he had to find something else.
He pushed forward, but there was something around him.
Movement in the sky.
He looked up. For a moment, it looked like there were dragons. Hundreds upon hundreds of dragons. There were so many dragons that they seemed to blacken out the sky. It was an impossible number. All different colors, all different sizes. Thousands of them. All with Dragon Souls seated atop them. It made seeing anything else impossible.
No.
Jason could feel the illusion. He knew exactly what it was. It was close, and the fact that there was an illusion like that told him that she didn’t want him to be here.
Jason blasted energy at the illusion.
It shattered.
The city loomed below him, and there was some place down there that called to him.
The palace. He understood why. That was where he had been before. That was where he had felt a strange energy before.
He jumped from the iron dragon’s back.
Energy started to swirl around him, and suddenly, a dragon streaked toward him. It was an enormous dragon, possibly the largest he’d ever seen…
Which means it isn’t real.
Illusion.
He forced power at it and shattered the illusion.
He tumbled toward the palace, using the energy within him and that of the dragons