Wizards and Dragons: Fantasy Collection, #1 by Linda McNabb

Author:Linda McNabb
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Dragon fantasy, family fantasy, Fantasy collection, magic and wizards, magical adventure
Publisher: Southern Star Publishing
Published: 2017-05-30T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX - THE ENCHANTED FOREST

Jaxon watched as the wizard sank into a chair and stared at the closed door. He looked like a tired, helpless and desperate old man.

‘Jaxon. You’re the only one who can help us,’ Wizard Argus said with a sigh. ‘I’m glad you wore your disguise today as things could have been much worse if you hadn’t.’

‘Disguise?’ Jaxon asked in surprise.

‘You mean you weren’t trying to make him a servant?’ Tess asked.

‘Jaxon, a servant!’ For a second the sadness in the wizard’s eyes was replaced by humour but it faded after only a few seconds. ‘I needed him to go unnoticed. I knew they would suspect he caused it all when they found out he could still do magic. I hadn’t expected them to come and meet us half way.’

‘Why are they going to punish us as well?’ Sef asked in a small voice. He didn’t sound at all like the outspoken spiky-haired boy that Jaxon met yesterday. Sef tugged at the copper bands. ‘Can’t I just go home?’

‘They’re not going to punish anyone. We didn’t do anything,’ Wizard Argus assured the boy. ‘I need you especially. They all know I had a young boy for an apprentice. Without you they would become suspicious. This way Jaxon can be free to help us.’

‘So that’s the only reason you didn’t take Jaxon back as an apprentice?’ Tess looked as if she would rather be wearing rags right now as well.

‘No, he can never be an apprentice again,’ the old wizard said with a small shake of his head. ‘The council make the rules about apprentices. If an apprentice breaks the rules as badly as Jaxon did they can never learn magic again. In fact I should have put null magic bands on him before I sent him away. Jaxon, do you remember that day?’

Jaxon nodded and bit his lip as he remembered how furious the wizard had been after he had released the charm spell.

‘That charm box has a spell on it so strong that the entire council together would not be able to open it, if they had the use of their magic right now. Only I can open it.’

Jaxon frowned. He had opened it easily. ‘Did you put the spell on it after that to stop anyone opening like me?’ he queried.

‘I put that spell on it the day I created it,’ Argus said quietly. ‘Your magic is so strong that you didn’t even notice the spell. You are more powerful than any living wizard, but you just couldn’t follow the rules.’

‘So I can never earn my cloak?’ Jaxon asked as he tried to work out what this all meant.

‘The council would not permit it,’ the old wizard said with a shake of his head. ‘They would all have to agree to give you a second chance and nobody has ever been given one yet.’

Jaxon felt the last hopes of regaining his status as apprentice fade away but knew he could not leave as he had planned.

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