Night Dragon An Epic Fantasy Adventure - D.K. Holmberg Page 0,20

place valuable. Knowing what he did of Lorach, knowing how they used the land, he couldn’t help but feel as if there was something important about this place.

He detected a twinge. It was faint, subtle, but the more that he paid attention to it, the more certain he was that it was there. Distantly, there was another sensation that he continued to detect. At first, he thought that it was something that was only in his mind, but the more that he felt it crackling within him and the energy bubbling up from someplace deep inside him, the more certain he was that it was there. That it was real.

The storm dragon.

It was unusual for Jason to feel anything when it came to the storm dragon. Unusual that he would even notice the dragon in that way.

Still, the storm dragon had responded to his request before. The storm dragon had helped him with the night dragon egg and had helped him defeat Lorren.

He needed to bond to the storm dragon the way that he had the others, and needed to get to know him somehow.

He could feel something else sizzling up within him. It was there, deep within him. It rumbled.

Jason rumbled.

Had he somehow bonded to the storm dragon?

If he could use that power, he might be able to find a better way to understand the magic within this land, whatever it was Jessica had done and the way she intended to use this land against the people of Dragon Haven.

He let the energy of the storm dragon sizzle up from deep within him.

The rumbling began to build within him again. That rumbling started slowly, softly in the back of his mind, and it built forward. Jason thought that he could call to it, but every time he tried to, it faded again.

He opened his eyes, looking over at the two dragons that were on the ground with them, but neither of them were paying much attention to him.

He doubted either of them would know what he needed in order to reach the power of the storm dragon. For that matter, he doubted either of them would be interested in helping him. It involved him finding his own connection, finding some other way to reach through that power and grasping it, pulling it to him.

He tried again.

More and more power came to him, but it came to him from the other two dragons—three, really. Even the forest dragon granted enough power to him he could detect her energy, and it flowed within him too.

He turned to the ice dragon. “We need answers,” he said. “Something happened to Sarah’s parents.”

“We have searched,” the ice dragon said.

It sounded to Jason as if they’d abandoned the search, as well. Jason could not.

“If you don’t want to search for them, then we need to better understand just what Jessica’s people were doing out here.”

“They were hunting for bones,” the ice dragon said.

“I know that, but why?”

There was one consideration. They had learned how to create misfits, and he wouldn’t put it past Jessica to use that knowledge against him, but would they have done so this close to Dragon Haven? What if there was something to the dragon bones that the Dragon Souls could use against Dragon Haven?

“What if there’s something else they intend to do?”

Jason tried to think about the connections he had. The dragons that he was connected to might not be enough for whatever was coming if Jessica moved with more force. They had the dragons of Dragon Haven, both those that had never been captured and those Jason had freed, along with the misfits, but that might not be enough against the might Jessica could bring against them.

There are other dragons.

Jason didn’t know if those other dragons would answer him. Given that he had been the one to kill Lorren, it was possible the mist dragons and the earth dragons wouldn’t respond to him.

How would he even find those other misfits?

He didn’t know where to start. Even when he found them, he worried about their response to him. Given what he had done, the way that he had been involved with the person who had helped bring them into the world, he couldn’t help but wonder if they would not respond to him. Stopping Lorach—especially if they continued to develop resistance to his attacks—would require more than just his misfits.

He looked over at the iron dragon. “I’m going to travel with the ice dragon. Can you return to Dragon Haven