Dragon Spy: Riders of Fire Dragon Masters, Book Six - A dragon rider young adult epic fantasy adventure by Eileen Mueller

Author:Eileen Mueller [Mueller, Eileen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Phantom Feather Press
Published: 2024-03-14T00:00:00+00:00

Terramite Rubble

By the time Giddi and Handel caught up with the blue guards near the Terramite ranges, dusk was falling. As they rose above the mountains, a volley of arrows flew up from behind some rubble on the mountaintop. A blue guard shrieked as her wing was pierced. Shredded wing tissue fluttered through the air, and streams of blood were driven on the wind as the dragon tipped and plowed into the side of the mountain beneath the snow line. Her rider was thrown from the saddle and rolled down the hillside, her bloody body sliding to a halt against a boulder.

Two blue guards peeled off to fly down and give aid.

A moment later, the somber news reached Giddi. “Both dead.”

Down the hillside, the dragons blasted the bodies with flame to prevent their enemies from desecrating them.

Blue dragons snarled, and flame lit up the dark sky as they torched tharuk archers on the ridge top. Smoke roiled from a few tharuk carcasses on the ridgeline. The rest of the tharuk archers fled into a pile of rubble and disappeared.

“Blast that rubble pile until those beasts cook,” Giddi ordered.

Handel wheeled in midair and dived toward the rubble, flame jetting from his jaws. Leandrya, Velanca, and the other blue guards joined him. The riders clung to their dragons’ spinal ridges, staying low to avoid the heat as flame roiled from their mounts’ maws and hit the rock.

Although there were no shrieks of pain or roars, they heated the rocks until the stone was glowing hot and a sticky yellow substance bubbled over them. No one could survive that heat.

“Where are the people these beasts took?” Giddi asked the wing of blue dragons.

Replies flooded in, none of them helpful.

No one had spotted any people.

Giddi hadn’t expected that. “We’ll keep searching until it’s too dark to see.” They didn’t have long—the dusk was deepening into night.

Handel and the blue dragons winged higher, beyond arrow range, and flew along the narrow valley between the two chains of the Terramite ranges. There were no visible signs of life, except the leaves below swaying in the breeze from the dragons’ wingbeats.

“It’s too dark to see properly,” Handel mind-melded. “We should try again in the morning.”

Giddi agreed. It was nearly impossible to see in the deepening dusk. “We’ll sleep on the edge of Great Spanglewood Forest—a short distance away from the Terramites in case tharuks are prowling—and try again in the morning.”

How was it possible for an entire village to go missing? Perhaps they were tucked somewhere in the valley beneath the forest canopy. He’d do a sathir sweep in the morning when they flew over the valley. Gods, he should’ve thought of that earlier.

“Don’t be too hard on yourself.” Handel mind-melded as he swept down the side of the snow-clad Terramites toward Spanglewood. “You saved the lives of two lads today.”

Hans and Guin. But a rider and dragon had died.

Giddi cringed. No one would need saving if it weren’t for him and Mazyka. And now a whole flarking village was in danger.

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