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Back The Last Dragon
Chapters (50)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
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  4. - TWO -
  5. - THREE -
  6. - FOUR -
  7. - FIVE -
  8. - SIX -
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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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  49. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  50. ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sierra? he shouted as loudly as he could in his mind as he sat back down with the amulet. I don’t know if you can hear me, but the TDA is looking for you and Damian with a bunch of agents. They’re going terminal by terminal, and have already checked four and five! You need to run, get out of there before—

FORT? Sierra said in his mind. I CAN HEAR YOU. YOU’RE SURE SHE SAID FOUR AND FIVE?

“Put it on now,” Agent Cole said, and Fort began to put the amulet over his head, stopping to let it get caught in his hair.

Yes! Where are you?

TERMINAL FIVE! IF THEY’RE GONE, THEN WE CAN GET OUT OF HERE. YOU’RE A LIFESAVER!

Agent Cole stood up and grabbed the amulet from Fort’s hands.

YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT WE’VE BEEN THROUGH. I NEED TO TELL YOU—

The agent placed the necklace over his head, and as soon as the amulet dropped against his chest, Sierra’s voice disappeared.

“That’s better,” Agent Cole said, her smile returning. “Now run off to breakfast while we finish with your room. The moment we find anything, you’ll be sure to know!”

Fort nodded and stood up, anxious to slip into the bathroom or someplace private to get the amulet off and see what Sierra had to tell him.

“Oh, by the way?” Agent Cole said as Fort put his hand on the door. “That amulet is a bit… special. I guess Dr. Oppenheimer had Sierra rig a few to knock someone out if they tried to take it off. So make sure you don’t lose it! Wouldn’t want to find you unconscious in the bathroom or something, now, would we?”

Fort just stared at her for a moment, shook his head, then walked out without another word.

- SIXTEEN -

AFTER EVERYTHING WITH AGENT Cole, all Fort wanted to do was see a friendly face. But the chill coming from his friends’ table in the cafeteria made Fort shiver as he entered. Rachel gave him an evil, dead-eyed stare as he walked in, and Jia caught his eye, then immediately looked away. Cyrus at least looked concerned, though considering everything that had gone wrong, that could be about a lot of things.

“Hey,” Gabriel said, waving at Fort from a different table, where he’d already taken some cereal. “Did you know that there are a couple of suits in our room going through our stuff? What’s that about?”

“You don’t want to know, trust me,” Fort said.

Gabriel raised an eyebrow, then seemed to notice the looks from Fort’s table of friends. “Yikes. I can see why you don’t want to talk about things. What’d you do to them all?”