Night Dragon An Epic Fantasy Adventure - D.K. Holmberg Page 0,107
at Jason briefly as her eyes widened. Something shifted in her at that moment, as if she had come to a realization—and a decision. Her posture shifted, and she stood taller than she had before. “Are you sure?”
Jason nodded grimly. “I’m sure.”
Then he could feel her attempting to.
At first, Jessica didn’t recognize the threat Janeya posed, but the longer she worked, the more that she pulled upon power, the more certain Jason was that Jessica realized just what was happening.
There was a possession of the power within the tower, some connection to magic that seemed impossible for Jason to even fathom, let alone understand just how it existed. Jessica began to push, drawing upon even more power than before.
Janeya took a step back, though through the connection they shared, he recognized something else. There was more than just that power between them. There was their connection. The bond. And through it, he began to recognize her control over the power and how she asserted it.
Though Jessica attempted to gain control over it, Janeya had familiarity with the dragon misfits, but it was more than that. Through the connection that she shared with Jason, she had access to something else.
She had access to the misfits.
The dragons wanted her to succeed. Wanted her to overpower it. Wanted for her to destroy Jessica. The dragons helped, and Janeya asserted her control.
He could feel it as she took control of the power in the tower.
It was enough that he wondered if he might be able to use it.
“What do I do?” she whispered.
“You have to push it back to the dragons,” he said.
Jason didn’t even know if such a thing were possible. At the same time, he suspected it would be. He suspected that whatever Jessica was doing, however she was summoning that power, there would have to be some way to reverse it.
That was what they needed to do.
Janeya started. The power flooded away from her.
It surged into him.
He took a deep breath. Connections to the dragons flared in his mind.
Jessica started toward them. “You won’t—”
Jason slammed her with the wind.
She had enough power within her that she was able to fight back against what he did, but he continued to slam at her, using more and more of the wind to hold her back.
While doing so, Janeya continue to draw power from all around her. She sent more and more flowing outward. Out. Toward the dragons.
Feeding them.
As she did, he knew it emptied the tower.
Which he thought needed to happen. The tower might have stored that power once, but it wasn’t necessary any longer. The dragons should hold it.
“She shouldn’t—”
Jason grinned. “You said your family. Unfortunately for you—and your family—she is your family.”
Janeya continue to call on that power, and he could feel Jessica losing the upper hand. It gave Jason a moment to draw on power of his own. Janeya—through her connection to him—permitted it.
That was what he needed.
He summoned the energy, letting it fill him, and then he began to use all of it.
Everything within him began to crackle.
The northern wind and cold. The heat and anger deep beneath the ground. The wind through the trees. The chaos of the storm. The power of the earth. All of it mixed.
Jason summoned it together. He clapped his hands.
When he brought them together, everything burst into Jessica. All of the combined powers that he had begun feeling merged together. He was aware of the mingling of that power, and aware of how it flowed through him, and he focused it only on Jessica, pouring power into her. It was time that her rule of terror was over.
When he was done, she was gone. He hurried over to the tower’s edge and looked down. There was no sign of her.
His blast had destroyed her.
He looked over at Janeya before sinking to his knees. “It’s done.”
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“I’m not sure what to do with this energy,” she said.
Jason focused on what she was doing with that power. “Keep pushing it back in the dragons, but don’t destroy it.”
“You don’t want me to destroy this?”
He shook his head. “I’m not exactly sure why, but there’s something about this that is old. Ancient. It’s something the dragons gifted the people. We have to understand what it is, and then we can understand why. I think the tower held it to resurrect dragons, but we’ll have to figure that out later.”
She studied him for a moment before nodding.
He felt power beginning to seep back into him, and through his