Dragon's Secret, book one: The Dragon Thief

Part 6

A/N During this scene, listen to "Eye of the Tiger" or "The Final Countdown"  trust me it makes it ten times better. Only the first part.

                           When we get outside, we immediately split into two teams. 

                          "Alright, today is all about teamwork and trust. Everybody can get either a wooden staff or a wood sword. You need to get the other team to go into submission. You can't try to summon your dragon, for their bones are still slightly weak, and might break. You may form a strategic plan NOW!!!!" Sruth announced. Suddenly, there was a hubbub of voices.

                          "O.k.!" I hear someone from my team say, "Let's surround them, like a singe." 

                         Suddenly, a chorus of "Yah!"s and "Great Idea!"s broke out.

                        "Time's up! Get your weapons." I choose a wood sword, for it is better in close range. "Go in three," I got ready to run "two," I tensed my muscles, ready to leap, "one," I centered my weight in my back leg, "GO!!!!!!" Sruth shouted. Both teams raced forward, strategic plans all ready in action. My team instantly surrounded the other. The other team's members consisted mainly of bigger kids, so they couldn't dodge us. In seconds, some of us surrounded them while the the rest of us attacked the other team and defended our's. I looked over. There where a few kids from the other team escaping the main group. If they completely got away, they could destroy our circle in a few swipes of their wooden swords and staffs. I dashed over, and stood in front of them not letting them get to the circle. I may haven't yet mentioned the fact that I can beat the best warrior in Carodia.... but I didn't want to sound braggy. They soon were the first of their team to surrender, on their knees. Everyone else on their team soon surrendered. "So, what did we learn?" Sruth asked afterwards. Several kids raised their hands. "That was a rhetorical question. What we learned is one team is obviously better than the other." Sruth said. A few kids looked confused (confuzled), but I shrugged my shoulders, after all, the truth is the truth.  

~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~

                          "And here is the Dining Hall," Sruth said, finishing a tour. "Now, I'm hungry, so let's go eat. Afterwards, we'll talk more about living quarters. So, go and eat!" Everyone raced over to a pile of trays and a buffet-style set of food. Everything was foreign besides a dessert called 'dolce' that I love. Because of that, I grab a little of everything, and a lot of dolce. I go and find a seat, at the same table as Drew. Also there are some teenagers that look about 17 years old. Their dragons seem to match then perfectly, well, those who's dragons haven't grown too large. In all, there were 6 of the 17-year old teens. There were two red-heads, three blondes, and one of them had jet-black hair. Both red-heads' dragons were gone, two of the blondes' dragons were there, one sea-blue, the other ice-white. It wasn't hard to guess their elements. But the boy with the jet-black hair, his dragon was there, but his dragon was bright orange.

                        "I'm guessing your Ezzenia? Drew was just telling me that first off, he's a Dragon Rider, and there is a girl Dragon Rider with a bit of an attitude. His words, not mine." said the blonde without his dragon present, who is Drew's brother, and I think is named Salami. I wonder what everyone else's name is... As if Salami can read my mind, he said "If you don't remember, I'm Salami, Drew's brother, and this is Palo," he said gesturing to a red-head with green eyes, "Hehku," he continued, gesturing to another red-head with pale-blue eyes, "Kerod," Salami gestured to the blonde with the ice-white dragon, "Meri," Salami then gestured to the blonde with the sea-blue dragon "Helle," (pronunciation: he - l - ee) the last blonde nodded his head in acknowledgment to his name, "and Koota." who was the black-haired boy with the orange dragon. 

                       "Ezzenia, what does your dragon look like? I could probably figure out what element it is." Koota said.

                      "It's true, he's a wiz guessing elements. He hasn't ever gotten a single one wrong!" Palo assured me.

                      "Well, she constantly switches color, but she mainly is a mystic-like blue." I said, hopeful to possibly know my element.

                     "Wait, there is such a thing a female dragon bonding? I though they could only hatch if a spell was put on them to hatch without a rider. But anyway, what is her name? Names tell so much about a dragon. For example, Valtam would be an insanely strong water dragon. Or Mystic would be a well-rounded super powerful dragon. Like, ten times stronger than three Valtam-named dragons combined and their riders. Plus a few less powerful dragons and their riders. But the name Mystic has only been a dragon's name once. Legend has it they built the entire school in the middle of a big war!" Koota said, rapid fire.

                      "Y-you said Mystic?!?!"

                     "Yah, why?"

                     "M-my dragon's name is Mystic." The table burst out laughing. "It's true," I said, angry. Suddenly, a tingling in my fingers grew. I thrust my palm out at Drew, who had been laughing the hardest. Power exploded from my fingers. And struck Drew straight in the chest.