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Back The Last Dragon
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

But there was no way he was leaving his father there, no matter what it took. And they’d changed the future before, every time Cyrus had maneuvered them around guards at the old school. Why couldn’t Fort change it now, knowing what was coming?

Feeling a bit more confident, he hid the book of Summoning where Gabriel had seen it last time, in the corner under some packing material, with his note sticking out from the front cover. Then he took a deep breath, turned to the nearest wall, opened a teleportation circle, and jumped through to the cavern below the old Oppenheimer School.

He landed on stone, but it was so dark, he could barely see beyond his feet. He considered that for a moment, then closed the portal he’d jumped through, and opened one higher, on the ceiling above him, leading back to the ceiling of the display room. Both portals were small, but the light from the display room now passed through the circle to illuminate the cavern, too, enabling Fort to see it clearly for the first time since the monster attack.

Rubble filled most of the area below the old school. There wasn’t too much space in the open cavern around him, and he hoped that wherever it had been, the old portal would be close enough for him to still reach.

As far as he could tell, there weren’t any dangerous cracks or holes in the stone below him, which was fortunate, as he didn’t want to accidentally trip or fall into one while bringing his father back.

Out of curiosity, he checked above him too, up around the open teleportation circle. It was harder to see from the glare of the light, but he didn’t find any holes or tunnels leading up out of it.

That was good. If there wasn’t any way up, that meant that no soldiers from the base had explored down this far, not since the school had been destroyed. And if no one had discovered the cavern, then Fort could leave the portal open without worrying about someone finding it. After all, if he closed it, he had no way to reopen it, unless he chanced potentially losing the book of Summoning to the Old Ones.

Fort turned back to the floor and readied himself. The memory of fighting the creature was still crystal clear, as it had only been a few weeks before. Damian had opened the portal to the monsters’ dimension, and the creature had emerged, digging its way up to where Fort had waited, deep in the basement of the old school. Its hand had burst through the floor and grabbed him, then dragged him back down here.