Child of the Dragon Chapter One

The Storm

The next morning Tilley came in and sat down next to me on the bed “I learned to block out-side thouts when I was younger. It helped to keep my thoughts from being consumed and overwelmed by onthers.” She put her hand on my sholder. “Let me help you?”
“How can I trust you I don’t even know you.”
“I know it’s not easy but I will show you who I am that way you well trust me to help you.” I sow her lowering her defances verry slowly to not over power me.
First I sow her as a girl playing in a yeard with her first familir a gray and black wolf pup. The deaper I went the more I fealt like I was being lead throw her memerys. I sow the death of the wolf sudden and young. She cryed for years tell she went walking with my brother and found a heart little yellow dragon. She carred it home and nersed it back to health when unexpected the dragon bit her on her ear and there thoughts became as one.
Now I sow her older helping a goup of people defent themselves from this fears army that was trying to kill them. I sow my three brothers, father and another woman holding an infant child not even a year old in her arms. Each of them had there wands out and where attacking with all there mite. I reconized some of the spills as they where using. Suddenly there was this larg expothin and all whent dark.
The images returned showed her looking down at a woman lying in a hopatil bed with my brothers, and father who was now holding the child stood around her. The woman had a wolf next to her that was long dead. The women on the bed handed my father her wond and smiled up at him. “Give this to her when she is ready. My dear, sweet child, take care of her.” her eyes went dark as she to joined her familiar. I recognized her wand it was the same one my father gave me when I started my training
“Mother,” I was thrown out of her thoughts to reterned to the small worm room with Tilley staring at me. Tears ran down my face as I stared at the blue and green wool blanked and cloth blue sheats. “She died, to protecting me.” I was looking up at Tilley trying not to cry.
“She was a good friend.”  She put her arms around me.
“Why did you show me that?” I was shaking in her arms
“Becouse you can trust me.” I looked over at Midnight and smiled at his feet twiching as he sleept.
“I would like to know how to block thoughts.”
“First you must learn to calm your thoughts then think of a several walls blocking what you don’t whant to be seen behind them. Then picher a seal on each one difrent and unick to that memery and then hide the seals so only you will know what it is and where it gose.”
I kind of understood her and sow how she did it and tried it my self. At first it was not working but a few hours later I finly got it down where I can clouse serten parts off and open others.
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It’s been two years since I left my family, and friends. Steve would come by once every six months to fill us in on what going on in the city. I wish I could go home but I have to take a test to be considered a wizard and join the society. Tilley is a great teacher, and if she did not know how to do a spell that we found in one of here books she would learn it along with me.
“The first thing you should always know is that we are always students no mater how old we are.” She would always say as we worked.
Every inch of the house was a mess papers books other odd and ends where scattered everywhere and I do mean everywhere the bathrooms, both of them, the bedrooms yes both of them, as well as the kitchen, everywhere except around the circle or two feet around it which haves to be keep clear at all times, “Because you never know when you will need it.” Tilley was very strict on that but other then that she was very easy to get along with.
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One night during a fears storm we where sitting by the fire as a bolt of lighting crashed taking the power out, and we where sent into darkness with only the light from the fire to let us see. Midnight now full-grown adult black wolf lied across the back door not once steering from the flashes. We could feel the powers of the storm serge throw are bodies as we worked on creating a spell for harnessing this power for later use as an energy buster amulet. It’s really simple, really, just use a black cord several clear quarts crystals to store the energy, amethysts to transfer the energy to the person warring it. I was also making a talisman to protect me from harmful spells that people mite throw at me. I used lead and smashed it into a coin shape and then started to carve sigils and symbols. Tilley handed me a talisman with a pentagram on it metal surface.
“What’s this for I all ready have one?”
“I know it’s for when you decides to have an apprentice of your own.” I took the black cord and stared at it.
“Thank you.” I said she smiled at me
“You should put some energy into the pentagram as well it’s a strong enough storm to work with.”
“Ok I will.” I charged the other two necklaces I did the pentagram as will. I put the finished products into my pocket.
Lightning brought light to the room casting streaks throw the darkness. Then a loud crash of thunder made Midnight jump up, and bark making all of us jump as well. That is when this loud bang sound came from the door. Tilley stood from the new wand she was carving and walked carefully over to the door. I watched as she opened it to a tall skinning figure in a long black cape-dripping wet from the rain. The figure collapsed onto the floor at Tilley’s feet. I jumped up and ran to help her put the man on the couch. I pulled his hood back and to my fear I sow Steve with short hair and a large open gash across his face.
“Steve!” I was in shock as I stared down to him. I looked as his pale face and sow pain in his eyes the sudden image of his wolf came to me “His wolf?” Tilley tuned to me.
“Go find him I will look after Steve.”
“Midnight.” I grabbed my black cape that sat next to Tilley’s green cape by the door on a coot rack, and we ran out side into the worm rain.
I heard a faint howling cry not to far off. “Come on.” I was holding my wand out in front of me. We reached the sound to see a small cold wet red wolf howling next to a large black wolf. Midnight walked up to it and the wolf turned to us, and stopped howling as she lowered her head to us “It’s ok little one. What is wrong?” I slowly walked up to a stand in front of her.
“There, there after us?” the wolf pup was shaking,
“Who?”
“The others like him.” She pointed to the black wolf that was lying on his side under a tree he was torn to shreds. On the other side was a young boy about six or seven dressed in nothing but a black t-shirt, and desert cameo shorts.
I walked over and shook the boy on the shoulder but he did not wake up. “What happened?” the little red wolf looked up at me
“I was told to howl tell I sow another black wolf.”
“Who told you that?”
“The man who took us from the boy’s family they tried to kill him. The boy went crazy and attacked every one the man who took us from them put a bracelet on the boy making him fell into a deep sleep he won’t wake up.” I looked at the young boy and could see a sleeping dragon’s outline surrounding the boy and the bracelet around his wrist. It was a strong sleeping spell that was worked into it. I heard howling not far off.
“We have to get out of hear?” said Midnight I looked tours the howling sound,
“It sounds like father.”
“There must be a reason for Steve to risk his life to bring the boy all the way out hear.”
“I know he is the dragon child.” I picked the boy up and held him on my back lucky he was not heavy at all. “What’s your name young one?” I looked at the red pup,
“Scarlet.”
“Will Scarlet we can’t stay here so let’s get moving.” We walked beck to Tilley’s house.
We stopped short to see several men in capes some I did recognize as friends of my father others I did not there was about fourteen of them surrounding the cabin. The worm rain was coming down harder now as I sow my father and older brother standing in front of the house with Steve and Tilley before him on there knees. There hands tied behind their backs and two men on either side with there wand pointed at them. Tilley’s yellow dragon was in a cage next to her going wild. The wolf I sow earlier I now knew was Steve’s I could tell they was close because he was starting to show singes of anger, sorrow, and the madness that was starting to set in. “Where is the Boy!” demanded my father pointing his wand at the two of them.
“What boy?” Tilley blue green dress was getting socked throw,
“Lesson hear I will only ask you again? Where is the boy?” he demanded an answer.
“The boy is dead you killed him.” Steve yelled as tears formed and flowed down his face mixing with the rain
“Then tell me where is Kate?” the two of them fell silent.
“She died years ago when we where attacked at the school.” Stave lied right to fathers face
“Don’t think I’m a fool boy. I sow the type of power that haves been used here and it’s not either of yours, and It’s no more then an hour or two old.”
“So answer me! Where is Kate!” he demanded,
“There is no one named Kate here.”
“Fine don’t answer me, but I will get the information I want one way or another. Spread out find the boy and Kate alive if possible!” yelled my father and some of the men that where with him started to walk off two of them came tours are general direction.
“Midnight take Scarlet where leaving.” he picked her up by the scruff of the neck and we ran as fast as we could with out being noticed tours the city two men seemed to be following us. We ran all night in the rain tell day came and the sky turned a light gray as the rain slowly stopped. We ended up in down town Las Vegas in the middle of the Freemont Street Experience where the city was begging to come to life from the rain as people exited the casinos and filed into the streets.
That is when I noticed two men in caps maybe sent by my father pointing at us. They ran toured us as their dark caps flattered in the wind revealing there desert cameo shirts and pants if you did not see there wands you would think they where military. We took off running as fast as we could further into the city. We ran to the bus station a few blocks away and hoped on the first bus heading south on Maryland Pkwy. It was one of the new double decked with dark gold and blue design on the sides. I paid the $1.25 for each of us then walked up to the second floor of the bus and sat down in the first row facing the front. I sat the boy down next to me as I tried to catch my breath. Midnight came to stand in front of me.
“Know what?” asked Midnight as he put Scarlet down in front of him so he could shake the water off his fir and let Scarlet to do the same. The bus started to move and we sow the two men run up to the station just as we pulled away from the light without them seeing us as we passed by.
“I don’t know. We can’t go back and we have to keep the boy safe.”
“True. But where are we going?”
“I don’t know.” that is when I came across a sine that said “The Refuge.” I pulled the stop cord and we got off the bus.
“Why are we stopping heir?” asked Midnight.
“It’s called the Refuge maybe they can help us. I sow it when I looked at Steve a few times.”
“Are you sheer it looks like any other bar?”
“Yes, but at least we can get something to eat here. I hope.” we entered the dark brown two stories balding with a brown clay tile roof and gray walls.