I only own those that are on my profile page. Four days has past since the last chapter. Why four, because nothing exciting happened in those days.
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Chapter 7: Dragon's Blood
It has been a few days since Owen arrived at the temple. He and Jas have gained controle of their powers, Owen can summon light at his will and Jas can now lift bigger things and is no longer hovering in her sleep. They also learned a priceless ability, the ability to ignore Sparx's comments. "Come on now you can do it!" Sparx yelled at Owen. Everyone was in the training room and Owen got the bright idea that he could take on ten large dummies at once. Owen jumped up and slashed at a dummy, his sword glowing, the dummy swatted him aside like a fly. Owen face planted, "Yow that's got to hurt, I give the landing a two. I'm very disappointed in you." Owen got up, his face was bloody from the landing, and the steam came off his wounds making him all better. "Now give them the old one two!" Sparx yelled. Owen charged in and swung his blade, a stream of energy came off it aimed at the dummy but it missed and almost hit Sparx, "Hey watch it!"
Owen smiled, "Sorry"
"You need to work on your aim." Sparx said.
"Your right, maybe next time I will actually hit you." Owen said with a grin on his face, everyone laughed.
Sparx crossed his arms and said, "Oh ha ha, very funny."
"Have you had enough yet?" Ignitus asked, it was Ignitus's turn to supervise the training session today.
Owen said, "You kidding? I still have some fight in me."
"Not for long if you keep that up, your form is all wrong." a voice said.
Everyone turned to see a man in a hooded cloak by the door, the man removed his hood, "Ace! Your back!" Owen said happy that his mentor is back.
Owen lowered his guard and a dummy blindsided him, "Never let your guard down." another voice said and a cat like creature walked in.
Spyro said, "Hunter it is good to see you but what are you doing here?"
Owen said getting up, "So your Hunter, Spyro told me a lot about you." Owen then looked up to see a dummy about to hit him, but Owen side stepped and stabbed it through the back, it disappeared shortly after.
Hunter said, "Nice kill, and to answer your question Spyro I ran into an old friend and decided to accompany him." Hunter said nodding to Ace, "We have had a lot of good times, right Ace, like the time we..."
Ace quickly interrupted, "Come now Hunter, we don't want to bore them now do we." Ace gave a sign to Hunter to keep quiet. Hunter looked puzzled then gave an understanding nod. "Anyways would someone mind explain to me why Owen is fighting so many large dummies?" Ace looked at everyone.
Ignitus answered, "We are just giving him what he wanted. He said he could do it and now we are seeing if he can do it."
Owen then said trying not to get hit, "I can do it!" Owen tightened his grip on his sword, "Watch!" Sparx hid behind Spyro from fear of being hit. Owen swung his blade and in the path of the blade a crescent shaped beam of light flew from it cutting three of the large dummies in half ,"See!".
Ace was trembling, then said, "Owen I want you to listen very carefully to me." Owen turned to his mentor, "I want you to build up that energy in your body, as much as you can, and when you can't contain it anymore release it all at once. Got that?"
Owen nodded, a little disturbed of what his mentor asked of him. Owen then closed his eyes and built up the energy in himself, the power was building and building, his body felt like it was going to explode. Finally his body couldn't contain it anymore, Owen opened his eyes to she that he was hovering a foot or two in the air. He realized that he had six wings made of light, one on ether side of his upper back tilted upward, one on ether side of the center of his back level with the ground, and one on ether side of his lower back tilted down. All the energy flew out of his body, the wings folded over Owen then shot outward, the wings were sending out hundreds feathers than priced the dummies numerous times. When it was over Owen lowered back to the ground and the wings disintegrated into feathers starting from the tips moving inward to Owen's body. Owen felt weak after letting all of that energy go, not weak from exhaustion but weak from not having all that energy in his body released. He collapsed to the ground then asked, "Wha…what was that?"
Everyone's eyes were wide and Ace was on his knees trembling, "Impossible." he gasped under his breath.
"Ace are you alright?" Hunter asked kneeling down to eye level to his friend.
Ace was still trembling, "It's him, it's him, but he is much older. I thought I could get him away, but fate will not let me. I did not want this, I did not want this."
"Come my friend, lets get you some air." Hunter said helping Ace up.
"Were are you going?" Spyro asked.
Hunter turned around, "Ace just needs to get some air, that was some sight and caught him off guard, as it did with the rest of us I'm sure." Hunter continued to exit the training room with Ace in a trance.
Jas was by Owen helping him up, then she asked, "Are you alright?"
Owen was panting, "Yea I'm fine, what was that?"
Jas shook her head, "I don't know. What do you think Ignitus?"
Ignitus was shocked of what happened then said, "If I'm not mistaken, you could have very well preformed a Fury."
Cynder whispered to Spyro, "Hey, did you notice the look on Ace's face? It looked like he saw a ghost."
Spyro whispered back, "Yea, and the way Hunter acted concerns me. It was like he knew what Ace was worried about or what was wrong."
Ignitus was walking out of the training room, "You can have the rest of the day to yourselves, I must speak with the other elders."
Owen sighed, "Great, I'm going to be the talk of the week now." everyone gave a disturbed chuckle after what just happened.
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Hunter led Ace outside and Ace sat down next to a tree, "Alright Ace what is the matter with you?" Hunter asked concerned.
Ace looked up, "He's back."
Hunter asked, "Who, who is back?"
Ace didn't hear Hunter, "After all of these years he is finally back."
Hunter thought for a moment, "You don't mean…"
"Yes." Ace interrupted, "He is, and now nothing can stop him from his destiny now."
Hunter paused for he knew better that anyone else, except for Ace, what Ace meant then said, "You will have to confront him and tell him the truth."
Ace's face was grim, "I know, but I wonder if he will hate me?"
Hunter the said, "If he truly is who you say he is then he won't."
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Owen was in his shared room with Spyro on his hammock with Boe nearby. Ace walked into the room, "Hey Ace, Are you feeling better." Owen asked concerned for Ace.
Ace looked up, "Yes I am."
"Well that's good to hear. Say, how did you know I could do that?" Owen asked.
Ace was not prepared for that question, "Um…why don't we go scout the area and I'll explain everything."
Owen got out of his hammock, "Alright then lets go, come on Boe." Owen went to get his cloak that Ace gave him and put on his sword belt, he finally got one.
"Um, I was kind of thinking that it would be just the two of us." Ace said ashamed of himself of what he was asking of Owen.
Owen looked down at Boe then knelt down by him, "Will you be alright here by yourself?" Boe whimpered, "I know, but it will only be for awhile ok" Boe licked Owen's face then settled himself hinder Owen's hammock.
Ace felt lower than dirt for having to split Owen and Boe up but he knew it had to be done for now, "I'm sorry." he said under his breath then said louder, "Ready."
"I guess." Owen said, "See you Boe, I'll be back in awhile." Owen and Ace then left the temple and went into the forest.
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Hunter was walking in the temple and saw Ace and Owen leave, "Go and tell him, it is for the best." he said, then turned down the hallway.
"Hey Hunter, I wanted to ask you something." Hunter turned around to see Spyro.
"Anything friend." Hunter said.
Spyro asked, "What was wrong with Ace, and don't say he was shocked form what Owen did."
"Well, almost anything." Hunter said.
"What?" Spyro asked.
Hunter then sighed, "I cannot tell you, for it is not my place, I know why Ace was acting like he was but like I said, it is not my place to tell you."
"I see." Spyro said.
"I'm sorry friend, I would tell you if I could, but I can't." Hunter said and continue walking.
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Ace and Owen were deep in the forest now, "Um Ace where did you say we were going?" Owen asked.
Ace didn't look at Owen, "Somewhere special." was all he said.
Owen and Ace were walking for awhile longer then Owen broke the silence, "How did you know I could do that um, Fury back in the temple?"
Ace continued looking forward, "You'll see." they have been walking for hours, "Were here." Ace said. They were in front of a cave, the outside of the cave had strange runes on the edge of the opening. "Come on." Ace said and continued forward into the cave.
"Ace, where are we?" Owen asked.
Ace continued looking forward, "We are in the Dragon Blood temple, it is a sacred place and all who are in the Order of the Dragon are required to here before they are knighted."
Owen then asked, "Are you saying that I'm being knighted?"
Ace paused, "No, I'm not saying that. I just wanted to show you something." Ace walked through a stone arch and Owen followed. The room was large and completely empty but had inscriptions on the wall, they walked into the center of the room. Ace removed his glove and pulled out a dagger, he cut his hand leaving a deep gash. "Forgive me." Ace said and moved towards Owen.
"Ace what are you doing?" Owen asked and noticed a white steam coming off Ace's gash.
Ace placed his hand with the gash on Owen's for head and said, "By the power of the royal family, I release you from your bonds, and awaken your Dragon Blood." Ace removed his hand from Owen's brow which is now covered in blood, nothing happened and Ace gave a sighed of relief.
Owen asked, "Why did you do tha…" but was cut off. He felt his skin start to crawl and Owen threw off his cloak, he looked at his arms and white scales started to grow on them. Ace's face turned pale, Owen's cloths started to disappear under the scales, not ripping or tearing. Owen sprouted a tail and his hands and feet turned into paws and grew claws, wings grew out of his back and Owen started to scream in pain. He started to grow ivory colored horns that curved back, and ivory spines, slightly tilted back, sprouted from the top of his head all the way down his spine to the end of his new tail. The end of his tail was shaped like an arrow head and razor sharp. Owen's face started to elongate and his arms and legs grew bigger. Owen's screams developed into a roar and he collapsed to the ground, as a white dragon.
Ace started to cry, "I wish that it didn't come to this, I wanted him to be safe." Ace fell to the ground, "I wanted him to be safe!"
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Jas was in her room and was levitating her bed, then she herd the door open, Jas broke concentration and let the bed fall, "Who's there?" she asked.
"It is just me." Cynder said.
Jas turned around, "Oh hi, what is on your mind?" Jas asked.
"Owen and Ace have been gone a long time, aren't you worried?" Cynder asked.
Jas sat on her bed, "No, why am I suppose to be?"
Cynder looked up, "No, it is just that Ace seemed to be acting strange in the training room and well, it's probably nothing, but do you think that Owen might be in danger?"
Jas shook her head, "No, if Owen trust him then I trust him."
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Owen was unconscious but was dreaming, he was a white dragon, about the size of Spyro, and was in front of the woman in the white cloaked and the man in the black cloak, "Where am I and who are you two?" Owen asked.
The woman in white spoke, "You will have to figure that out on your own."
"The events that have past have changed the outcome of your fate." the man in black said.
"What?" Owen asked.
The woman in white then spoke, "Because of this change your destiny has also changed."
"What are you talking about? Who are you?" Owen asked.
The man and woman spoke in unison, "Be prepared for the darkness ahead for without you, the light, there will be nothing but darkness."
Owen said, "I have no Idea what your talking about."
The cloaked figures stated to float backwards saying, "Prepare." over and over.
"Wait!" Owen yelled, he then saw a light and woke up. Owen grabbed his head, "Where am I?" he asked himself.
"Don't you remember? I said we were in the Dragon Blood temple." A familiar voice said behind him.
Owen turned around, "Oh yea, now I remember, why did you…" when Owen turned around he saw a white dragon, about the size of Ignitus, The dragon looked like an older version of Owen's dragon self. He had longer thicker horns and spins, bigger wings, and the tip of his tail was an arrow shape but sharper and longer. "Who…who are you?" Owen asked wondering were Ace was.
The dragon stood up, "I'm hurt, you don't remember you mentor?" the dragon's wings and tail started to shrink and retract into its body, his body started to take on a human appearance, the appearance of Ace.
Owen was speechless, "What the hell man." was all he could say.
Ace didn't look Owen in the eyes, "I'm sorry, truly I am, but I had to know."
"What if you could turn me into a dragon? Yea thanks a lot." Owen said a bit furious.
"Owen you have to believe me, I never wanted this to happen to you." Ace said.
Owen asked, "Then why did you do it?"
Ace then said, "It was the only way to know."
"To know what?" Owen asked.
Ace sighed, "To know if you were my son." there was a pause, Owen didn't know what to say, "Owen, I'm your father."
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That's Chapter 7, sorry if that was to predictable. The next Chapter Owen gets to learn how to fly, that should be fun. Still read the next Chapter because there is more to it than that. Please review.
