Druids Rise

Chapter 19~ Revenge of a shadow

"Trystan did we have to ride so quickly back?" Joseline said as we trotted into Lishengure.

 "yes we had to out run the warlock so it didn't look planed also I have been gone to long I will be lucky if my vanishing has gone unoticed otherwise father will have an army of knights out looking for me and that will not be good" I said pushing my horse into a lope to the stables where I snuck back into the castle going to my room.

"And where have you been?" said a voice from my bed which made me jump.

 "Shadow! why are you here don't you have something better to do in kallunia?" I said as I started to wash up.

 "No I don't your father was paying a high price for the so called prince Uther fron blackcrest" shadow said as he got up "what do you" I started.

"He is not who he says he is Trystan he is a warlock himself he used to raise dragons for Kaliora it used to be a kingdom of its own with a castle and everything his dragons snuffed out all the royals and took all evidence from the tragedy" he explained helping me out of my armor with a movment of his hand.

 "And I am the warlock from Kaliora I can change my face it's a gift you should have seen the look on your face when I denied you and Joseline chased after me it was priceless" he chuckled.

"You can't be serious" I said as I turned around and looked at him.

 "About which part?" he said with a smirked.

 "Uther being a dragon master it can't be true" I said looking at him in wonder.

 "But it is Trystan not that you would know your to blind to see it, to blind to see any of it" he said to me before turning and going to the door of my chamber.

 "This is all your past you are reliving what was this is not real" he said then left leaving me to question his statement.

Acting upon my own accord I shook my head and walked outside a loud noise comming from the square where Shadow stood a bright light flowing against the darkness we had seen a great dragon in the shape of a shadow forming upon the squares grounds people running away from the masive shape but I was stupid and ran into the square.

"Shadow!" I shouted the large shape moving and looking to me its red eyes locking onto my small form which gave shadow enough time to cast a ray of light into the middle of the figure which seemed to anger it making it turn and swipe at shadow a large gash raking across his torso his body being thrown to the ground the beast looking back to me.

"Oh man!" I exclaimed fighting the urge to run to shadow Joseline, Matilida, and Darius rushing over to stand with me.

 "no man dies alone not even you Trystan" Uther said walking up his eyes like a rainbow dragons of every color dropping from the headwinds and landing in the square people peaking out and watching the dragon master and the true warlock work his magic.

"Drakorian Shadoriakian lumioran!" Uther yelled shadow standing up fully healed the shadow of the dragon rider becoming one with its rider.

 "Shadow! your...dead?" I said as a great wave of greif swept over me Shadow was never alive he had always been a creature of the night a shadow that was lurking and waiting for his time to come he would take revenge on the one who killed him...Uther.

"Many regrets old friend I died at the claws of a dragon and now the one who killed me will feel the same weight of a dragons talons slipping into his skin and ripping his skin from his chest then ripping him apart limb by limb while he still took his last breaths" shadow said before the dragon reared up its talons spreading and slashing Uther deep each tallon finding its marked place to rest.

"No! Uther" Matilida shouted before she ran to Uthers now motionless body throwing herself over him his blood steaming out of his body and onto the cobbles of the square the dragons he commanded fading one by one shadows figure and his dragon fading their job done a great wind blowing the form away while Uther lay lifeless in Monroes arms heavy tears rushing down her face.

"Uther no...please no" she begged as she held him before she laid him down and stood looking up at the sky a new darkness filling her very being until she looked right at me here soft blue eyes hard like ice.

 "You did this...You are the reason Uther died because of You the only thing that mattered to me is gone" she said coldly before falling to her knees again.

"Matilda I am not the one who gashed his chest out he did that on his own accord" I said before she looked up at me Uther's head now laying in her lap.

 "how can you jsut brush this off as a misunderstanding" she said standing and looking at me before I felt as if I could no longer take in a breath just by her looking at me she was choking me.

"Matilda stop it!" Joseline yelled before she too was pinned down unable to move vines holding her back Darius being frozen in place as he tried to run at Matilida from behind my focus fading in and out as I stood there a tear falling from my face as I watched Matilida squeeze the last of the life out of Joseline freeze Darius and felt her strangle me where I stood.

"Now you will all perish at my hand and there is no one to save you" Then the world went black my body going limp and falling to the cobbles this was the last thing I felt and last thing that I saw as I fell was Matilida's cold blue eyes and then nothing I was dead.