.Dragon's Legacy.

-21-

"What are you doing?" I snapped out of my thoughts.

"Well... My uncle Em got me this book and it speaks of an old fighting technique, to strike the points where magic flows through the body to cut it off, since Mystery won't teach me stuff I thought I should teach myself something she doesn't know, see, have a look." I handed Kela the book and she flipped through it.

"You should train of your fire you know?"

"I know but I can't get anything down!" I said making a small puff of fire, still the size of my fist.

"You sure won't get better with that attitude Lin." She closed the book, handing it back to me. "You need discipline and patience which you clearly lack."

"Is this a session of 'insult Lin' all over again?"

"Might as well be."

"Hey!!" I sprayed water at her but with a wave of her hand it shot back at me and froze solid over my face.

I put my hands on it and flexed them, breaking the ice and brushing it off my skin.

"Plus you let your emotions dictate your actions.... Lin you are brash and hotheads, running in without a plan, that cannot be who you are if you wanna be head mage as you told me."

"I know." I sighed, setting the book aside. "I know very well but I can't force myself to be someone else."

"You don't need to be, just open your eyes more."

"Yeah, any news about the cultists? Because I fear they might shift to more intrusive actions soon."

"Nothing we could track back to them I am afraid." I shook my head in displeasure, glancing at the purple leaves bushes invading the greenscape of the garden, popping up one night, already rooted deep.

I woke up to panic from the part of the calmest race there is when that happened, flying ghost rabbits floating in the sky, purple plants or the ground seeming to bend in a way to float upside down in the sky, the spirit was right, the worlds are merging but way faster then I would have liked it... Wait!

"Hey, have you ever seen the spirit plains?" I asked Kela.

"Well of course not."

"Oh right, only the head mages and their apprentices know it is true and not a myth I forgot.... Come on!" I grabbed her wrist, running off into the hedge maze.

"You can't keep running off like this Lin!" She said, jogging to keep up with my pull.

"Don't be such an ass." I grinned as the purple plants surrounded us and created a tunnel with a bright light at the end. "Relax a bit and have fun!"

"LIIIIIIIN!!!!!" I whole heatedly laughed as she screamed as I yanked her off the cliff that came into view and was now free falling.

I landed on my feet in the snow as the familiar hot gust of wing from the spirit plains slowed my descent, Kela she.... Face planted in the snow kicking up a cloud of it despite being slowed down too.

"I will kill you myself Lin." I grinned at her as she got to her feet and dusted herself off, the snow falling off her towards the sky that was a light and dark purple mix.

"Welcome to the spirit plains!" I declared, throwing my arms out.

A flock of bird made of plants flew over us.

"It... Is amazing."

"Well come on." I grabbed her and fell on my back, falling through the snow and free falling again, high up in the sky and plummeting towards multicolored mountains made of gems with a rivers of gold snaking down the valleys of them.

My whistle was brought by the winds far.

"I hate you!" I laughed as she was afraid of this but I guess there are few that can experience this and know nothing will happen to you either because you are familiar with the spirit plains or that you know a silver dragon would catch you after you fall of it's back.

I saw the red glint of scales before I touched the spirit and was dragged through the air as I locked my feet together around its midriff to hold on.

"Here's my friendly friend of a spirit, he told me about what was happening and why the spirits can cross over to our realms and why the more spiritual of our people could pass on in the spirit's realm." I smiled as I turned around as Kela got comfortable and waved at the spirit. "Hey there! I knew you'd hear me."

He just made a gruff huffing sound, flying on, bringing us somewhere.

"Lin." I looked back at Kela. "This is huge.... This is extraordinary."

"I know but what about me is really ordinary?"

"I... Where are we going?"

"I don't know, the spirit usually caries me off where I am needed, that said it only did it a few times but it hasn't landed so I guess there is need for my spiritual abilities."

"And to say you are the least spiritual girl I've ever seen in my life."

"Hey, don't be mean!"

"It is the truth."

"Still!"

I grinned, despite the jabs I couldn't truly get mad at her.

I shrugged of the hint of a weird feeling in my chest, no time for that Lin you have work to do.