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Chapters (50)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
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  10. - EIGHT -
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  13. - ELEVEN -
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  15. - THIRTEEN -
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  20. - EIGHTEEN -
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  22. - TWENTY -
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  31. - TWENTY-NINE -
  32. - THIRTY -
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  49. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  50. ABOUT THE AUTHOR

His father’s eyelids fluttered, and he opened them to look up into his son’s face. For a moment, madness filled his eyes, and his face twisted into something unrecognizable, but then he seemed to focus, and his expression turned instead to wonder.

“Fort?” he said.

Then his eyes rolled back into his head, and he fell unconscious.

“Jia!” Fort shouted as Gabriel ran off in a new direction. “JIA! It’s my dad! He needs healing!”

She and Rachel both ran over as Gabriel continued searching the floor for his brother. “I’ve got him,” Jia told Fort, but he wouldn’t move, he wouldn’t let his father go, not now, not after he’d just found him. “Please, Fort, you have to give me room.”

Rachel gently pulled Fort away, and somehow he resisted fighting her, instead watching intently as Jia concentrated, then put her glowing blue hands down onto his father’s chest.

“Fort, as soon as Gabriel finds his brother, we need to get out of here,” Rachel hissed at him. “If we can get to the portal, we can close it and leave the Old One trapped here. We can’t let him get back to Earth, no matter how much he hates the others.”

“Jia, is he okay?” Fort asked, barely hearing Rachel’s words.

“Shh,” Jia said, crinkling her forehead. “Give me a minute. I’m trying to see what’s wrong.”

“Fort,” Rachel said. “Did you hear me? We have to get out of here before the Old One, or—”

“Hey!” Gabriel shouted from the far side of the room. “Where is he?” He ran over to the Old One, who was ignoring him, tears turning to steam as they rolled down his scaled face. “I don’t see him. Where is my brother?!”

“Uh-oh,” Rachel said.

“LEAVE ME TO MOURN,” the Old One said.

Gabriel angrily slammed his shield against the dragon’s leg, more to get its attention than from any possibility of hurting it. “We had a deal. Tell me where my brother is now!”

“IF HE IS NOT HERE, THEN MY FAMILY MUST HAVE TAKEN HIM,” the Old One said, snaking his dragon head down to within inches of Gabriel. “BUT THAT IS NOT MY CONCERN. AS OF NOW, OUR BARGAIN IS COMPLETE. I HAVE RETURNED TO YOU THE ELDER HUMAN.” He lifted his head and sniffed toward the tunnel leading to the portal. “AND I CAN SENSE SOMETHING OF MY CHILDREN IN YOUR REALM! PERHAPS YOU WERE NOT LYING ABOUT THE LAST DRAGON AFTER ALL.”

- THIRTY-FIVE -

GABRIEL SCREAMED IN RAGE AND pulled back his shield to strike again, only to freeze in place.

A moment later, so did the rest of them.

“ATTEMPT TO INTERFERE, AND I WILL DESTROY YOU,” the Old One said, slowly beating its wings. Dust kicked up all over the room as the remaining dragons disappeared, and the Old One rose into the air.