Dragonrider Academy: Episode 1 by A.J. Flowers

Author:A.J. Flowers
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2020-09-07T04:00:00+00:00

I’d never fought a day in my life, but I’d read plenty of fight scenes in my favorite fantasy novels and that counted for something.

And coming here… it had changed something in me.

Adrenaline made my heart thunder in my chest as I dove out of the way and blindly swiped with my blade, but my movement felt guided by an external force that thrummed through my veins. I knew I wasn’t going to hit my target that way, but that guiding instinct told me this was how I’d get her off guard. I regrouped as I did a somersault roll to get in closer to the female. Daggers were short-range weapons, but the last thing I needed was to be out of her reach where she could use her superior skill to jump in and hit me with a well-aimed strike that I wasn’t trained for.

I needed to make the first move.

Jasmine kept her eye on the blade, just as the strange guiding force had predicted, all while I moved in close. I didn’t need to stab her. I just needed to make a point, and I had a feeling that this was my first test, one of many at Dragonrider Academy. I needed to prove that I wasn’t going to be scared off by the first challenge that came along.

As predicted, she blocked my blade with hers, keeping it a safe distance from her vital organs.

That was exactly what the energy inside of me wanted and a small surge of warm approval spread throughout my body.

The world went still for a moment as a gentle hum filtered through my ears and the mark on my shoulder grew hot. I’d traveled worlds, and perhaps that was a trigger for the goddess lineage in my blood to come out.

Whatever the cause, I was able to work my fingers into a solid fist and I crouched, putting all my weight into my legs as I launched my punch upward, catching her chin while she kept her focus on my blade.

She grunted as her head snapped back and she fell to the ground in an undignified heap as time resumed its regular pace. Her dragon shot up and flared its wings, but Killian hissed at it, making the creature shrink back.

Huh, so Killian had some authority over another rider’s dragon; that was good to know.

Both of our daggers had fallen to the ground and Killian bent down to pick them up. “Well, I think that was the shortest duel I’ve ever seen in my life.” He grinned at me, the wicked gleam in his eyes irritating me, because I had pleased him—and I liked that I had pleased him. A part of me already sought his approval as my mentor and my partner at Dragonrider Academy. Something unspoken sealed between us in that moment as he gathered both daggers into one hand so that his fingers could brush mine, leaving an unspoken message that this was the first of many moments to come where I would be tested and he would be by my side to witness my victory.

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