The Academy

~10~

Sage POV

As we soared through the sky I looked around at the scenery below, I watched as the ocean of green trees flew by but then the trees that came by next started looking... Odd. They all started looking dead and black, they all had no leaves on them and it look as though they had been shaved down so if someone fell from a height they would impale you.

"What happened to all of the trees?" I hear Ivy say behind me that caused me to look up.

"Its the Black Kings soldiers." Cole said from the front.

"More like his monsters." I heard someone else say. So I leaned forward and found the owner of the voice and raised an eyebrow at him signalling to continue. " Monsters that Black made when he went bad, he also made normal creatures more... Wild?" I looked at him strangely "Well, say a deer for example it is rather skittish and a prey animal." I nodded " Well he made it so if you are in a forest instead of it running from you it would attacked you instead."

"Quite  ferociously at that." I heard another voice say.

"Well how would you tell the difference between a normal deer and a enchanted deer?" Ivy asked.

"Its quite easy if it was a deer its fur will turn black, it is sort of like his signature." Cole said, and I found myself brushing my hand over my dagger. "But anyway you will learn more about all of that at The Academy."

And with that everyone went quiet again, as we where flying I found myself looking down at the trees again and thinking about what everything would have been like all those years ago during the first war between the Black King and The Community. The Black War is  what many called it.

That was the war of all wars between our people. That was the war that all parents told there children. The Black King was like the monster under our beds as children. The story of the Black King, sometimes just called Black nobody knows what his real name was but that just made it all the more scarier.

 The story starts of in the village of High Mountain, a small snow covered village in the North, that was the village where Black came from, apparently he was just an ordinary 15 year old boy, helping around his home and talking care of his ill father because his mother passed giving birth to him.

Anyway, it eventually came to the time of his village Choosing Ceremony, when it came to his turn he touched The Egg and it glowed black it would turn out that he was a dragon rider and a earth wielder, at the time he was the first and only of our kind. He was a myth. A legend.

But after some time at The Black Sparrow Magic and Dragon Riding Academy he started to...Change. Some say he started going crazy his own magic was too much for him, then some say it was all his dragon putting dark thoughts into his head. But me I don't think it was either I think it was all himself, I think he unlocked his dark side as soon as he placed hands on that egg.

After a while he got too powerful and ended up killing the Queen of Elements and Dragon Riding, well that was what sent the whole kingdom into war. Thousands and thousands of Elementals, Riders and their dragons where killed. 

Then the story ends there nobody really knows how the war ended. Most thought he died, some say he killed himself. But around  100 years ago he resurfaced creating his 'soldiers' it almost started another war. But in the end there was no war , and now the his 'soldiers' are still wondering around attacking anything that gets in their way , as for Black everyone thinks he went into hiding waiting for the right moment to remerge and attack.