Blaze the Ice Dragon by Adam Blade

Author:Adam Blade
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2009-06-13T16:00:00+00:00

PANIC AND PAIN CHOKED TOM’S THROAT AS THE dragon’s length tightened around him. He tried to stand up, but he couldn’t move his legs. The dragon had looped his snaky form around Tom’s lower body, too. A pair of gleaming eyes set in a narrow head on a long neck swung around to look straight at him.

Tom stared as a forked tongue, black as night, flickered in and out between the Beast’s bloodless reptilian lips. The dragon brought his head right up to Tom’s face. Tom wanted to look away, but he couldn’t. There was something about the dragon’s eyes. They weren’t like any Beast’s he’d seen before. They looked … human.

And Tom was sure he’d seen them somewhere before. He tried to call out to Elenna, but a thin wheezing sound was the only noise that came out of his mouth. He writhed, fighting to free his arms. He twisted his shoulders and jerked his hips, anything to loosen the dragon’s death hold. As if in response, the scaly body contracted and Tom felt his ribs begin to crack.

Storm snorted in the darkness and Elenna slept on a few paces away, oblivious to the danger. Tom had to wake her. If he died, she would be next. He saw his shield leaning up against a rock. If he could knock it over, the sound might awaken Elenna.

As the Beast’s muscular grip shifted again, Tom gasped once more as he tried to draw breath. The ice dragon’s head didn’t move — it was as if Blaze wanted to watch him suffocate. Then Tom realized where he had seen those eyes before.

Malvel!

Somehow the Dark Wizard was inside this Beast, controlling him with his evil magic.

Tom stretched his leg toward the shield and managed to slip his foot behind it. With the last vestiges of his strength, he flicked the shield up into the air and it clattered onto a small rock.

Elenna was on her feet in a heartbeat.

Tom’s vision darkened and his limbs grew weak. Was this the end?

Suddenly, the death grip weakened and air filled Tom’s lungs. He immediately saw the cause. One of Elenna’s arrows was sticking out from Blaze’s body. Silver charged forward and tried to bite the dragon’s side, but his teeth slid helplessly off the thick scales.

“Hold on!” Elenna shouted, stringing another arrow. Tom wriggled free and rolled across the ground toward his sword. But before he could grab the hilt, the tentacle-like coil of Blaze’s tail wrapped around his ankle. Tom looked over his shoulder and saw that he was being dragged back toward the Beast’s gaping jaws. The dragon’s teeth were icy blue, but his mouth was red like blood.

Tom pulled himself by his fingernails toward the sword, feeling his sinews stretch to their limit. He locked his fingers around the hilt. As he was pulled backward, he turned and swiped at the Beast’s head. But the blade passed straight through the Beast and thwacked into the ground. Blaze’s body was now see-through. He’d turned into a ghost!

Tom felt a swell of rage in his chest as he got to his feet.

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