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Back The Last Dragon
Chapters (50)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. - ONE -
  4. - TWO -
  5. - THREE -
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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 -
  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 -
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  42. - FORTY -
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  49. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  50. ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Fortunately, Gabriel didn’t ask any questions about why Fort stayed behind after their study sessions. Of course he knew that Fort had another book of magic, but Gabriel didn’t ask, and Fort wasn’t going to share, at least not until he found out more of the other boy’s secrets anyway.

As soon as Gabriel left each night, Fort would open a teleportation circle and retrieve the book, then get going. He’d experimented with a lot of different teleportation portals since the first night, from trying to high-five himself with two circles right next to each other, to seeing if he could keep a spoon he’d taken from the cafeteria falling forever by creating one circle on the ceiling, another on the floor right below it, and dropping the spoon in.

It had worked for the first few minutes. Unfortunately, spoons moving that fast hurt if you try to grab them because you think you heard someone coming.

He soon ran out of interest in these and instead decided to visit a new landmark around the world every night, just to clear his head. After that, he’d return to the dragon room and create as many portals as he could from one side of the room to the other until he either was ready to pass out, or he thought of a new place around the world to see, to get a second wind.

So far he’d been to the pyramids in Egypt, the Great Wall of China, the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben in London, and the Statue of Liberty, not to mention a bunch of theme parks after they were closed, which was kind of thrilling. Part of him felt bad that he wasn’t finding cooler, lesser known spots, but for the teleportation spell to work, he needed to have seen the place, and there were only so many out-of-the-way local secrets that Fort knew about. Most of those were in his hometown, and that was one place he had no intention of visiting now. Not until his father was back, anyway.

Studying as late as he could each night meant he didn’t get much sleep, so when he couldn’t keep his eyes open any longer, he’d open a tiny teleportation circle back to his room to check to see if Gabriel was asleep, then widen it and jump through after relearning the spell again. It was taking a chance, for sure, but it was still better then getting seen by a guard or a security camera.

And it’s not like he needed the help getting caught, if that’s what he’d wanted. If anything, as the days went by Agent Cole had gotten more intent on finding the books Fort had taken. Gabriel reported back one morning that two of the suited agents had shown up at their door the night before, checking to make sure Fort was there.