Fate of Dragons: Dragons Rising Book One: An Epic Fantasy by Alisha Klapheke

Author:Alisha Klapheke [Klapheke, Alisha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-27T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Ryton led Grystark and a host of sea folk around the northeastern tip of Tidehame. They swam hard, fins slicing through the rough, cold waves, the water pulling at their hair, seaweed clothing, and sharpened coral spears. The ocean was a cacophony of booming spellwork shouted by one of many companies Venu oversaw. The smell of magic pricked at Ryton’s gills, masking the other scents of oily breaker fish and the earthblood vents that released bubbles beyond the field of battle.

Their goal today was to extend the flood to the Jades’ hunting grounds.

The Watcher had suggested the attack, and Ryton was pleased. This plan didn’t call for Ryton’s closest friend, Grystark, to lure Jades toward the Blackwater well. The Watcher’s strategy was still dangerous, but not as insane.

All cherished the Watcher, an ancient, gnarled female. She could See events in the past, present, and future, making her an invaluable resource in the war. The Watcher had told Queen Astraea that the Jades were the second worst threat to sea folk’s power. Ryton and his army had to curtail the Jades’ reproduction through direct culling during attacks and by diminishing their ability to find meat. If allowed to thrive, the Jades would destroy all of his kynd’s Blackwater sources and drive Astraea and her kin into oblivion.

As to the foremost threat to the sea folk, the Watcher claimed that Fate still shrouded that danger.

Now, a host of Jades flew above the surface, their shadows dark and sinuous among the waves, their flaming maws rippling with fire magic that burned Ryton’s gills even as he swam ten feet underwater. Ryton had no more time for thinking of the mysterious threat the Watcher could not yet name.

The Jades were here and he had to fight them now.

“To the right!” he called to Blue Unit. “Spell with speed and accuracy!”

Grystark took off with Blue, as planned, and threw Ryton a nod as he did. He truly hoped that wouldn’t be the last he’d see of his old friend.

Ryton kicked and rose, the Silver, Green, and Gold units behind him. A moment before breaking through the waves, they spoke their spells into their weapons, for once they surfaced they’d have no oxygen to shout into air. With their spears, they could throw twenty square feet of spelled water at the dragons. Aside from an expert spear throw to the few sensitive spots on a dragon, water magic was the only way to take the beasts down.

“Touch the sea and turn the tide,” Ryton said to his spear. It hummed at his side as he swam up and up and up. “Water spelled for breaking. Teeth of salt for tearing.”

The rushing, boiling sound of water magic grew louder.

Those beside and behind him spoke the same spells, pushing their will into the spears, using the magic that flowed through their veins. Gills flaring along the sides of their necks, nostrils expelling water, they focused on their approach.

Ryton broke the surface.

Two hundred, maybe more, green dragons flew through the storm-black sky.

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