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Chapters (50)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
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  49. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  50. ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Fort dove to the ground, and the heat almost singed his uniform as it passed just a foot or two above him. He threw a look over his shoulder to find that, thankfully, the cops had escaped unscathed by hiding behind their vehicles.

“I didn’t know what we’d find!” Fort shouted, pushing to his feet and holding his hands up in surrender. “But these humans did nothing to that dragon. No human did! You were the one who told us that dragons were on our side. We were partners, just like you saw with the skeletons!”

“AND FOR THAT CRIME, MY BROTHER AND SISTERS DESTROYED MY CHILDREN!” the Old One roared again, this time lunging forward, swiping directly at him. Fort quickly threw up a teleportation circle, and instead of cutting him in two, the Old One’s claws passed through empty air above the Grand Canyon.

“Then blame them!” Fort shouted, closing his circle as the dragon pulled his hand back. “By taking it out on humanity, you’re doing the exact same thing your family did. Would your dragons want you to hurt the ones they were protecting? Especially for their sake?”

The Old One reared back, screaming incoherently, his face still contorted with rage. “YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT IS LIKE TO LOSE YOUR CHILDREN!”

“Kid, get out of the way!” one of the cops shouted. “You’re in the line of fire!”

“I’ve got this!” Fort shouted, and summoned a huge teleportation circle behind him, just in case they decided to ignore him and fire anyway. Now if they did, their bullets would fly out harmlessly over the Atlantic Ocean, a spot Fort remembered from a flight to Florida once.

He quickly turned back to the Old One, his hands still held up. “It’s true, I don’t know what it’s like to lose a child. But I do know what it feels like to lose my parents! I’ve never known my mother, and my father only got turned into a Dracsi because I was too slow, too weak to stop it. And yes, I’d have done anything to bring him back… but maybe I didn’t have that right. Maybe it’s not worth putting all these people in danger because I was so sad and angry!”

The Old One sneered. “YOU CANNOT POSSIBLY UNDERSTAND THE DEPTHS OF WHO I AM, AND WHAT MY DRAGONS MEANT TO ME, HUMAN. THEY WERE THE EMBODIMENT OF ALL MAGIC, MY GREATEST CREATION. NOW I HAVE NOTHING LEFT, NOTHING !”

“Maybe not, but…,” Fort said, then trailed off as an idea occurred to him. It wasn’t perfect, and even suggesting it might get him killed, but if it did work, it could save all the police behind him, let alone the rest of humanity. “But that didn’t have to be the last dragon.”