Fireball

Cleaning Up The Pieces

Snapping back to reality, Fireball realized what he had done. In his rage he had blown such a powerful flame, he destroyed everything within 500 feet. He had burned up the evil wizards and their dragons, but he had also destroyed his two friends, Drake and Amos. Endrik, Elyse and Malvina flew to his side.

Malvina came up to hug her son, but he had his head buried in his hands. His rage had not brought Kaida back. It only enabled him to kill two close and innocent friends. What kind of dragon was he? He was no better than the evil wizards and dragons he thought.

"What is that?" Malvina cried out. "I just saw something blowing out of the smoke."

Elyse was staring out at the ruins as she also saw something. They flew across the smouldering fields. Fireball, still upset, followed with Endrik. When they arrived at the outer edge of the destruction, they saw a large bubble bouncing around, changing directions every time it came in contact with smoke billowing from some of the charred remains. They stared at the bubble as Elyse went over and stretched out her arm, poking the bubble with one of her sharp claws.

There was a large 'pop!'. The four dragons looked in amazement as Amos and Drake both rolled out onto the ground.

Amos stood up and spoke, but only Fireball understood him. As a puzzled Drake stared at Amos, he cast a spell so all the dragons could understand him.

Drake interrupted him, still fired up on adrenaline. "Thank you Amos for saving us from the deadly flame. I don't know how you did it, but thank you."

Amos walked over to Drake and reached up to pat him on the shoulder. Then he smiled. "Well, I must thank you first, for grabbing me. I knew you and Fireball had some plan and I just assumed it included fire. I have seen the damage Fireball's flame can do so I figured my safety bubble could protect us. Looking around I'm surprised it withstood the blast."

A very embarrassed Fireball apologized to his friends. "I didn't think my plan through because I was so upset. I could have killed you both. I am very sorry. My actions were evil and I should be dead."

Malvina hugged Fireball. The others came over and also put a hand on the little dragon. Amos told him it was okay. He was upset and acted a little hastily. He explained he himself had done the same in the past.

"Learning to control our temper is important. We can work on that as I did with the prince. For now we have thwarted the enemy and stopped any further bloodshed. Take some time now Fireball. You need to mourn your loss."

Using revealing spells and combing the community yielded no wand. The wizard was upset about so many innocent lives lost and still not having recovered the evil wand, but he made a promise to the survivors that he would never stop until he had the wand and destroyed it.