Chapter 9

-David's POV-

I was sleeping peacefully in my room, when suddenly I felt like I was falling. I woke up just before I hit the ground. I landed face first into the stone, not hard enough to do damage, but it still hurt none-the-less. I pulled myself off the floor to see Raven on my bed laughing. "You must feel so good about yourself right now." I said to her. She stopped laughing and looked back at me.

"Yes, yes I do." She replied. She then stuck her tongue out at me and bolted out my door. 'Oh no you don't.' I thought. I took after her. For a baby dragon she is fast to say the least. By the time I caught up with her, we were already at the academy. She stopped running at the door and I slowed down to a slow walk. As soon as she opened the door I jumped at her, but she jumped up to dodge me, which caused me to land on the floor. "You'll have to try harder than that to catch me." She said as she landed on my back. She hopped off my back and I climbed to my feet. Out of literally know where, Nightclaw jumped from a shadow and tackled Raven.

"I thought you were supposed to be uncatchable Raven, what happened." He said sarcastically. Raven had a pouting expression on her face and Nightclaw laughed. He lightly poked her head and Raven's ears shot straight to the sky. "That is for laughing at me earlier and by the way, you're it." Nightclaw said as he hopped off of his sister. He took off down the hallway and ran towards the arena and Raven was in hot pursuit. And I thought I was hyper active. I decided to walk towards Spyro's arena. When I arrived I saw Spyro and Cynder inside the room with a very young dragon. The dragon looked like a combination of Spyro and Cynder so I assume it is their child. I could tell the child was trying to use learn breath attacks, so I decided to wait be the door. I was watching the child, when suddenly I saw a black fire come out of its mouth. The fire melted the target that Spyro and Cynder set up and the child bounded up and down in excitement. I decided to walk over to them and give the young dragon my own congratulations.

"I'm so proud of you." I heard Cynder say and she hugged the young dragon.

"As am I." Spyro said. I noticed Spyro turn his head in my direction. "I see that you had a rough morning."

"Well getting pushed out of your bed by a young dragon doesn't exactly help." I replied. "So what's your kid's name?"

"Her name is Serenit." Cynder said as she let the young dragoness go. "Serenit this is David." Cynder said to her daughter.

"It's nice to meet you Serenit." I said. I held up my hand and wave at her and surprisingly she did the same thing back at me. "So what element did she use on the target?"

"It was shadow." Spyro replied. "She sure does take after her mother." I looked back at Serenit and she coughed, but when she did, she sent a small puff of normal fire which almost burned my foot.

"I think she can do more than that Spyro." I said jokingly. Both Spyro and Cynder were too awestruck by what Serenit had done that they failed to notice what I said.

"I guess we can add fire to the list." Cynder said jokingly.

"Yeah I guess we can." Spyro replied. Serenit then walked over to me, sniffed my let a little bit, and then started rubbing her head on my lower leg. I kneeled down to her and started rubbing her with my hand. "She likes you David." Spyro said to me.

"Yeah," I started as Serenit walked back to her parents. "I guess she does." A few minutes later the door opened and the students from yesterday entered the room. The young dragons looked very pleased when they entered the room. Serenit made a small whimper sound and pointed to the group of other dragons. I think she wants to join the class. Spyro shook his head at Serenit and she dropped her head. Serenit didn't press the issue so she went walk towards Trent and Crystal, who led the dragons into the room. I joined the ranks of the students and Spyro and Cynder began teaching. Today the students worked mostly on their melee combat skills, while I was trying to teach myself some tricks with the gauntlet. I found a way to craft an earth spear and an electricity sword. I mainly practiced with the sword, mainly fighting dummies to better my technique with it. The first few times I didn't do so hot. I managed to get clubbed by some of the dummies before I finally got the hang of it. As I was training, I saw a few of the students glace over to me and sent me curious looks. They were cut short by their sparring partner making an attack against them. Once I felt comfortable with the electric sword, I switched to using my earth spear. I learned very quickly the spear was a longer ranged weapon than the sword. After practicing with the earth spear for about half an hour, the class ended and the young dragons went on to their next teacher.

"I see you found new ways to use your elements David." Trent said. "I haven't seen a dragon form weapons with them before, but then again since when has a dragon needed to, either way, nice job."

"Thanks Trent." I replied.

"So, Spyro and Cynder I noticed you both couldn't stop smiling during the class today. What happened.?" Crystal asked.

"Well, we figured out Serenit's elements." Cynder said. "Apparently they are Shadow and Fire."

"That's nice to hear you two." Trent said. He then turned back to me. "David, you got a minute?" I nodded to him and we stepped out of the room.

"What's up?"I asked.

"Something Ignitus told me in a vision last night." He replied. "Does the name Tionis ring any bells?"

"Not that I know of, how come?" I asked.

"Ignitus said that you and Tionis, the evil on the rise, are somehow connected. I was just wondering if you knew any way how." Trent replied.

"Nothing comes to mind, I'm sorry." I said.

"It's ok, I don't hold it against you." Trent stated.

"If it is alright with you, I'm going to go back to my room. Learning to use those elements in that fashion really took a lot out of me." I said.

"Sure, by all means go ahead." Trent replied. I nodded and began to walk back to my room. On the way there, I couldn't shake the thoughts from my head. 'What does Ignitus mean that I'm connected to Tionis in some way? Is it just a mistake and if it isn't, how can we be connected?' I reached my room and opened my door. I walked inside and lied down on the bed. I must have extremely tired from using vast amounts of my much elemental energy today in class because as soon as my head hit the pillow I was out like a light. I wish that I know how I was connected to Tionis.