Night Dragon An Epic Fantasy Adventure - D.K. Holmberg Page 0,81
burst of cold energy to shoot them upward. When he landed on the ice dragon’s back, he tapped on the dragon’s side and they began to move.
They flew, traveling quickly. He could feel that power flowing within them and continued to recognize the beacon in the distance.
“Are you aware of that?” he asked the dragon. The ice dragon roared. “What is it?”
“Something that should not be here,” the dragon said.
The dragon pushed an image across their connection to him. It was unexpected. It was a shimmering oblong shape with colors streaking through it and energy radiating from it.
An egg?
Jason’s breath caught. “Why would that be here? And why wouldn’t Lorach have it better guarded?”
In the image the dragon revealed to him, there was nothing but the egg. Nothing more that suggested they feared losing the egg.
But if Dragon Haven had been defeated, there would be no reason to fear.
“What is it?” Janeya asked.
“An egg,” he whispered.
It had to be another attempt to create a dragon misfit. Considering how Jason had seen Lorach chasing dragon bones several times, it had to be the same reason.
Jessica wanted her own dragon misfits.
Jessica wanted that power. She understood the energy of the dragon misfits. She had seen the evidence of what happened when dragon misfits were hatched. Not only through what Jason had experienced, but through what Lorren had done.
Those dragons were powerful, and he could imagine her wanting to use that power to control the rest of the dragons.
They raced toward it, but even as they did, Jason felt something else. Dragons.
The sky was filled with darkened forms of dragons. A hundred of them, possibly more, all of them blackening the sky. Seeing the dragons flying like this was something Jason had longed for. He had wanted to see the dragons circling and flying freely.
But not like this.
These dragons were not freed.
For a moment, Jason thought that this was nothing more than another illusion.
He had seen illusions like this before. It would be similar to the kind of illusion Therin had once used on him, but when they neared, Jason could feel the power of the dragons, and they were familiar to him. This wasn’t any kind of illusion that he had ever detected before. If it was, then it was a powerful one.
Jason tapped on the dragon’s side.
Some of the dragons he saw in front of him looked familiar. There were several that Jason recognized, dragons he had once freed, and now were captured once again. Somehow, Jessica had found a way to overpower what he had done.
Anger flowed up from someplace deep within him.
He would have to find a way to overpower the energy they were using to control the dragons. He might be able to borrow from the power from each of the dragons, but what he needed was a greater connection. He closed his eyes, trying to borrow that energy from the dragons, and then started to push it out.
“There are too many,” Janeya said.
He hated that she was right. “There are too many,” he agreed.
“What do you propose?”
“I don’t really know. The people of Dragon Haven are marching here, and I don’t really know what she intends to do with them.” He turned to the ice dragon, focusing on the power within him. “Are you certain that there’s an egg here?”
“I am.”
The ice dragon sent that awareness to him, connecting Jason to the power of the egg, allowing him to feel the energy flowing from it. The people of Dragon Haven were still a ways behind them. Why bring them here?
He tapped on the ice dragon’s side and they streaked upward.
The ice dragon moved with incredible speed, flying high and quickly. Jason held onto the ice dragon by the spikes, and he tried to look down, using the ice dragon’s eyesight in order to see the Dragon Soul dragons, but there were still so many that it made it difficult to focus on them.
He looked down from the ice dragon, watching as those dragons circled. Sadness filled him.
“Why do I feel… sadness… from you?” Janeya asked.
“There was a time when I feared the dragons,” Jason said softly. “And then there was a time when I began to understand the dragons were different than anything that I had ever known before. I began to realize that they were misunderstood, and that the belief I had of the dragons was different than the truth about them. I vowed to do everything I could in order to protect them.”