BooksBarbecue
Back The Last Dragon Save as PDF
Chapters (50)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. - ONE -
  4. - TWO -
  5. - THREE -
  6. - FOUR -
  7. - FIVE -
  8. - SIX -
  9. - SEVEN -
  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 -
  24. - TWENTY-TWO -
  25. - TWENTY-THREE -
  26. - TWENTY-FOUR -
  27. - TWENTY-FIVE -
  28. - TWENTY-SIX -
  29. - TWENTY-SEVEN -
  30. - TWENTY-EIGHT -
  31. - TWENTY-NINE -
  32. - THIRTY -
  33. - THIRTY-ONE -
  34. - THIRTY-TWO -
  35. - THIRTY-THREE -
  36. - THIRTY-FOUR -
  37. - THIRTY-FIVE -
  38. - THIRTY-SIX -
  39. - THIRTY-SEVEN -
  40. - THIRTY-EIGHT -
  41. - THIRTY-NINE -
  42. - FORTY -
  43. - FORTY-ONE -
  44. - FORTY-TWO -
  45. - FORTY-THREE -
  46. - FORTY-FOUR -
  47. - FORTY-FIVE -
  48. - FORTY-SIX -
  49. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  50. ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Blue Healing light filled the creature, and he shrieked again, then turned back to Ketas. “YOU WILL PAY FOR WHAT YOU’VE DONE!” he roared, his hands glowing bright blue. Ketas put up his tentacles to stop him, but it was too late.

The Old One’s tentacles pulled up into his body while he screamed in pain and anger. His crystalline armor cracked and fell away as the Old One rapidly increased in size, rising high into the air, his skin growing black, shiny scales. The skull helmet he wore exploded off of a head that now began to resemble something even more monstrous than the tentacles he’d previously had.

“STOP HIM!” D’vale shouted, but both Q’baos and Michael were transfixed, watching Ketas’s evolution into a Dracsi. “THEN I WILL DO IT MYSELF,” D’vale finished, and turned on the dragon.

The blue light disappeared as the Old One of Corporeal magic abruptly dissolved, each mineral and element in his body releasing from each other at the same time.

“Fort!” Rachel shouted. “We have to get out of here now!”

“Go!” he shouted to her. “I’m right behind you!”

She growled in frustration but took off toward the ceiling and the portal home.

The dwarves reached the ground and came running, all wielding axes and other weapons, but now that Ketas’s transformation had stopped, Q’baos raised a hand, and the dwarves all skidded to a stop, falling to their knees in worship. They began to chant words of praise toward the Old One, and from off in the distance, Fort could hear more dwarves doing the same, the noise shaking the rock all around him.

“PLEASE, GABRIEL,” Michael told him, extending his hand to Gabriel… and also Fort. “COME. I DO NOT WISH TO SEE YOU PERISH LIKE MY MASTERS’ FORMER BROTHER.”

Gabriel looked down at the spot where the dragon had been destroyed, then slowly took a step toward Michael…

Only to step through a teleportation circle, with Fort just behind him.

- FORTY-THREE -

FIRST GABRIEL, THEN FORT CRASHED through the teleportation circle and the portal back to Earth, slamming into the ground. The moment Fort saw Rachel waiting, he immediately shut down the portal, finally cutting off all access to the Dracsi dimension.

Gabriel rolled to his feet and just stared down at Fort in shock. “What did you do?” he whispered.

“I saved your life,” Fort said, rising to his feet too.

“You should have left him there,” Rachel said, fireballs forming in her hands.

Gabriel shot her a look, then bashed her away with his shield before turning on Fort. Even at his size, Gabriel was too fast, and the hit knocked Fort back into the rock wall hard enough to make the world spin. Fort struggled just to breathe as the air exploded from his lungs.

“What did you do?!” Gabriel shouted again, then smashed him with the shield. “You left Mike behind! Open that portal again. Now!”