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

“Because that egg needs his father,” Fort said, backing away and hoping he hadn’t just made a very bad mistake. But the last thing he was going to do was take this new dragon’s dad from it, not with his own father lying on a hospital bed not far from him right now.

The Old One’s eyes widened, and he scrambled to his feet, relaxing after he saw the glowing blue dragon egg. Fort had carried it from the Old One’s arms when he wasn’t sure if the creature would wake up or not.

The dragon reached out a trembling hand and gently lay it on the egg, an odd expression on his face. “IT WORKED,” he said, sounding almost surprised. “IT TOOK ALMOST ALL OF MY POWER, BUT THE LITTLE ONE IS ALIVE AND WELL.” His eyes unfocused, and he put his other hand on the egg as well. “THOUGH THIS DRAGON… IT WILL BE DIFFERENT FROM MY LAST CHILDREN. MAGIC HAS CHANGED, HERE ON EARTH. IT… WANTS SOMETHING.”

Magic wanted something? That was terrifying. “Okay, great, but we still need to get you back to your dimension,” Fort told him. “You’re going to have to find some place to hide from your family—”

The Old One’s eyes refocused, and it sneered. “RUN? I WOULD SOONER DIE. I WILL FACE THEM AND MAKE THEM PAY FOR WHAT THEY’VE—”

“And put your egg in danger?” Fort said incredulously. “You’ve got to be kidding!”

The dragon moved his head in closer until his teeth were just inches from Fort’s fate. “DO NOT SPEAK TO ME AS IF—”

“Then don’t put your new child’s life in danger!” Fort shouted back, so angry that he didn’t even care if the Old One attacked. “You need to think about them, not just yourself and your need for revenge!”

“I WOULD SOONER PERISH THAN THREATEN THIS NEW LIFE,” the Old One said, backing off a bit and standing up, still holding the egg carefully in his arms. “YOU… YOU MAY BE CORRECT, HUMAN. AND I DO NOT SAY THAT LIGHTLY. BUT WE SHOULD GO. WE MUST HURRY BACK IF WE ARE TO HAVE ANY HOPE OF HIDING FROM MY BRETHREN.”

Really? The dragon was pulling an “I’m ready, we’re waiting on you now” on him? In spite of wanting to run back to the medical ward and check in on his father, Fort knew he couldn’t just teleport the Old One back and hope for the best. He needed to see this through, if just so he could look his dad in the eyes when the man woke up. With a long sigh, Fort opened a circle back to the portal beneath the old Oppenheimer School. “Let me go first,” he told the Old One. “I don’t want to scare Gabriel and Rachel.”