Dragon Rider Academy Book 1

Chapter 6: Parting Gifts

It's been 5 years since Crosell hatched for Soren. He was now 15 years old. Soren was now old enough to enroll at Dragon Rider Academy and today was the day he would finally leave home and travel to the school. There were two ways a newly enrolled student could travel to the Academy, they could either travel by carriage with an escort or on by dragon back. Of course, Soren, being the dragon crazed kid he was, chose the latter. The night before Soren was to leave, his parents through a big celebration in the city. It was as big as the party celebrating him being chosen by a dragon egg. Maybe bigger. All the towns people in the city came to show their support for their young lord and wished him all the best in his school life.

As Soren finished packing all the things he needed for his trip, he looked at the roof of his room to reminisce about the past 5 years. After Soren introduced Crosell to his family, they all told him how proud they were of him to be chosen by such a beautiful dragon. Before his sisters were to return to the Academy from the break, Crosell was introduced to Moonstone, Tyraxx and Nightwing. All three of the older dragons were very amazed to have such a cute baby dragon sibling. They were even more amazed that the younger brother and son of their riders was able to speak their language. Soren explained to them about his circumstances and they agreed to keep his secret, not that they could tell anyone else if the wanted to anyway.

After Aria and Luna, left for the Academy, Sorens parents really upped the ante with his training. His mother taught him that it was possible to create your very own spells. She showed him spells she created like Wind Scythe, Water Whip, Stone Spear and Dancing Blizzard. In order to create you own spell, you must clearly visualize what you want the spell to do in you mind, or else it won't work. After months of training, Soren was able to create many of his very own spells, one of his favorites was Flamethower, which cast a massive and powerful stream of fire. Just like the tool used back on Earth.

Even though Soren had his own dragon now, he must wait until Crosell was old and large enough to ride. In the meantime, Nightwing would take the young dragon under his wing and teach him all about being a dragon bonded to a rider and Nathan would teach his son more of being bonded to a dragon. After 3 years, Crosell grew large enough to take to wing. At first, Soren had a hard time riding on the back of Crosell. It seemed so much easier when his father took him to fly on Nightwing, but then again, Soren wasn't doing the flying. With months of hard work and proper training from Nightwing and his father, Soren was able to ride on Crosells back without falling off or making silly mistakes. Of course, his parents were only allowed to teach Soren how to ride Crosell without fighting with a weapon or using magic. That he would have to learn at the Academy. During his years of training, Aria and Luna graduated from the Academy and became fully fledged Dragon Riders. They were presented with one handed long swords made of Dragonsteel. Both of the swords blades matched the colors of Tyraxx and Moonstone, silver and bronze. Aria named her bronze sword Orinmir and Luna named her silver one, Zenba. Afterwords, the chose to register with the Adventures Guild and travel with their dragons with friends.

After 5 years of rough and tough training, Soren was ready to attend the Academy. A knock at the door woke Soren up from his trip down memory lane. "Soren? Honey, it's your mother. May I come in?"

"Of course, mother. Come on in".

His mother opened the door and walked into his room. She was still as beautiful as if she hadn't aged at all. "Are you ready for your trip, dear?", she asked.

"Sure am. But, I still don't understand how I'm supposed to take all this stuff with me. Crosell is still a young dragon, he's no where near big enough to carry all this luggage", Soren answered.

"I'm very aware that Crosell can't carry all this, but I told you not to worry. I would take care of that. Now, go down stairs and wait for everyone at the entry way. We each have a surprise for you", Cynthia said as she rolled her eyes.