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Back The Last Dragon
Chapters (50)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
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  5. - THREE -
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  10. - EIGHT -
  11. - NINE -
  12. - TEN -
  13. - ELEVEN -
  14. - TWELVE -
  15. - THIRTEEN -
  16. - FOURTEEN -
  17. - FIFTEEN -
  18. - SIXTEEN -
  19. - SEVENTEEN -
  20. - EIGHTEEN -
  21. - NINETEEN -
  22. - TWENTY -
  23. - TWENTY-ONE -
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  25. - TWENTY-THREE -
  26. - TWENTY-FOUR -
  27. - TWENTY-FIVE -
  28. - TWENTY-SIX -
  29. - TWENTY-SEVEN -
  30. - TWENTY-EIGHT -
  31. - TWENTY-NINE -
  32. - THIRTY -
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  35. - THIRTY-THREE -
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  40. - THIRTY-EIGHT -
  41. - THIRTY-NINE -
  42. - FORTY -
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  49. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  50. ABOUT THE AUTHOR

She walked over to the wall and began to concentrate, as Gabriel took her place. “We’re going to make this work, no matter what it takes,” he said to Fort. “I need to know you’re with me.”

Fort looked at his roommate, now someone completely different than he’d thought. “I want my father back, and you know what I’m willing to do.” He leaned in close. “Do you really know where the last dragon is?”

Gabriel nodded. “I’m not going to say where, in case the Old One is listening. But my father has it trapped. He captured it a few days ago and won’t shut up about it.”

“He captured a dragon?” Fort said incredulously.

“Like I told you before, it’s the last dragon: What makes you think it isn’t hiding as something else?”

“So it’s human?”

“Dr. Opps is the one who told my father what it really is,” Gabriel said. “Dad doesn’t believe him, because he’s a fool. But once we get my brother and your dad back, we’ll bring the Old One over to the good colonel, and let those two discuss what it is. And then they can work it out between themselves who gets to keep it.”

- THIRTY-THREE -

WHAT IS TAKING SO LONG, human?” the dragon asked Rachel. She had both of her hands pushing against the cavern wall, the red glow emanating from her fingers lighting up the nearby gold. “ARE YOU UNABLE TO ACCOMPLISH THIS SIMPLE TASK?”

“I’ve… got it,” she groaned, then flashed Fort a look. He quickly ran over to her and leaned in close.

“So listen,” she whispered, sweat running down her face. “This might… be harder than… I thought. There’s… something in the rock… that eats any magic… that you send at it.”

Fort nodded, even though he had no idea what she was talking about. “But you just said you can handle it.”

She glared at him. “That was… so that thing didn’t… eat us. But I might… have an idea.”

She let go of the wall and turned back to the dragon. “Don’t worry!” she yelled, wiping the sweat from her forehead. “Should only be another minute at most!”

“IF IT IS MUCH LONGER, MY BRETHREN SHALL ARRIVE, AND I WILL BE FORCED TO TURN YOU ALL INTO DRACSI,” the dragon said, not sounding particularly bothered by that.

“She’s got it!” Fort shouted up, then leaned back in. “So, um, what’s the idea?”

She made a face. “Dr. Opps and Dr. Ambrose have had us… experimenting. You know, like you did against that Ketas Old One thing, made up that Cause Great Harm spell or whatever it was using the spell words you knew, and trying to say something else with them?”

“Yeah, Sebastian mentioned that,” Fort said.