Chapter 11

New Moves

The next few days were roughly uneventful, save for the pranks that Trent and his buddies tried to pull. The first thing they tried was the old "knock him into his food" trick at breakfast the morning after their first encounter. Bolt saw them coming from the corner of his eye and knew that the rear dragon, Abyss, was going to knock him into his food, but Bolt turned the tables on him and tripped Abyss into his food instead. Then during the class they have together, Steel threw a paper glider, [DON'T ASK ME HOW HE DID IT OR HOW HE KNOWS ABOUT IT, JUST GO WITH IT!], with a rude message inside. Bolt ducked under that one and it got stuck in Pinarus' horns instead. Rust for brains did something extra stupid when he wrote the message; he signed his name at the end of it. THAT earned him detention for the rest of the week. They didn't try anything else for the rest of the day. The next day, however, they tried one more thing. Trent and his buddies tried to drop a bucket of water on Bolt's head by propping it up on the door to one of his class's. This plan back fired in a big way, for when they finished they walked away and heard the splash of water. Thinking that they got their target they turned around to snicker at him, but much to their dismay and foolishness they got Volteer instead. The way Volteer was looking at Trent, Abyss, and Steel you would think that he was staring down some of Malefor's minions. He made them mop it up and gave each of them two weeks of detention (two for Abyss and Trent and one extra week on top of the week he already had from Pinarus). Not one of their pranks landed their mark, thanks to all of the pranks that Teresa pulled over the years plus his heightened dragon senses. That was the end of their antics, for now.

Over time Bolt's skill in combat improved greatly, with the aid of Cynder and Spyro from time to time. During the combat lesson with Titanus as the instructor on the day after the bucket attempt, the class was doing one-on-one combat practice against a big dummy (not Sparx as much as some people wanted). A few of the students got K. by it while others managed to beat it. Then Titanus said, "Bolt you're up next."

Bolt entered the arena from where he sat from for twenty minutes. He got into a fighting stance that he had worked on with Cynder and Spyro then Titanus shouted, "BEGIN!" as a large dummy appeared in the center of the arena. It charged straight for Bolt roaring as it rose its' fake weapon. Bolt remained claim and held his ground until the very last second jumping over the dummies' attack as it swung the blade horizontally. Then Bolt countered the attack by spinning to his right, slashing the dummy's face with his tail blade while still in the air. The dummy stumbled backwards from the strike making a small distance between it and Bolt. Once back on the ground, Bolt charged at the dummy not allowing it to recover from the attack. Bolt rammed his horns against the dummies chest puncturing it then pushed off before the dummy could grab him. The dummy tried to strike Bolt by bringing its wooden sword down on his head, but Bolt caused enough damage to slow the brute's movement making it easy to see the attack coming. Bolt jumped backwards and easily avoided the attack then as he landed on his hind legs he sprang right at the dummy then swung his right claw at the dummy's face. Then, keeping the momentum going, he continued to spin to his left and brought his tail blade to the dummy's face as well. Finally, after going into almost a full circle, he brought both of his front claws and swiped the dummy in the face again. The dummy staggered after that last attack and went down vanishing a moment later.

"Interesting combo attack, crude, but effective." Titanus complemented "What do you call it?" he asked as the students cheered Bolt on.

"What, that? It's just my Spinning Triple Slash combo, nothing special really." Bolt answered.

(Later that day)

"Sounds impressive Bolt, wish I could've been there to see it instead of listening to Cyril's talk of the Ice Dragons of Brimr (Brim-mear), yeesh!" remarked Flame.

"Well if that is what you had to deal with, watching Bolt spin around like a top would be better." Sparx teased.

Bolt, Spyro, Cynder, Flame, and Sparx were in the cafeteria eating lunch while Bolt and Cynder described how combat class went.

"I'm not sure why you guys are making a big deal about it really. It's just an attack that uses your own momentum to strike your opponent if they don't block it and in that form real enemies can, and will, intercept it leaving you exposed to their attack if you don't act quickly enough." Bolt explained.

"Wow, you're very observant of yourself, and humble too by the sound of it." said a female voice from behind Bolt.

Bolt turned his head to see who it was, and his heart throbbed. It was Jewels with her own tray of food that she just gotten.

"Oh, uh…hey Jewels. W-what's up?" Bolt asked

"Nothing much really, I just about to head over to where my friends where sitting." She replied.

"Ah…OH! Where are my manners?" Bolt said as he slapped himself in the head with his paw, "Jewels meet my friends Spyro, his foster brother Sparx, Cynder, and Flame. Everyone this is Jewels she is in my history class."

They each nodded and said hello as their name was called and Jewels responded in kind.

"Well, it was nice to meet you all, but I need to get going. See you in class Bolt." Jewels said as she left.

"Yeah see you later Jewels." Bolt replied as Jewels walked off. The others looked at the expression on Bolt's face as Jewels walked off.

"Well, you picked a good one there buddy." Sparx remarked.

"W-what? No, no, no it's not what you think one bit Sparx. I don't even know anything about her outside that fact that we share the same class." Bolt exclaimed.

"Well you were looking at her quite a bit back there." Cynder commented.

"Not you too Cynder! Come on you guys, there's nothing going on really. Besides if there was something going on I don't think it'll work."

"Why's that?" asked Flame.

"I have certain issues that are my own, and I rather not talk about it if you don't mind." Bolt explained referring to the fact that he was actually a human and not a true dragon. He still wasn't ready to tell Flame and especially not Sparx about that particular secret.

"Oh, sure thing, sorry Bolt. I guess you've got some problems you're not ready to talk about huh?" Flame said.

"Well I wanna know, come on spill it!" Sparx demanded.

"Sparx lay off will ya? If he's not ready, he's not ready all right?!" Spyro chastised.

Sparx and Spyro went on one of their brother rants when another dragon, a male this time, came up towards the empty place at the table.

"Excuse me for interrupting, but which one of you is Bolt?"

Bolt turned to see who was asking.

The dragon was muscular with steel grey scales, light orange wing membrane, medium length snout, hazel eyes, his horns where also a light orange color and where shaped like elongated Omega symbols [think of the Omega Symbol (Ώ) grab the ends of it and stretch it out slightly in your mind, hopefully you have an idea of it], his tail hammer almost had the appearance of the sun, and was twice Bolt's size in terms of height alone.

"I'm Bolt, why do you ask?" Bolt answered.

"My name is Bahadran (Ba-ha-dr-on). I'm with the student disciplinary committee and I would like to speak with you for a moment please."

"May I ask why?"

"It concerns with Trent and his constant pranks of late and that they have been targeting you specifically."

"Oh, that. Sure we can talk for a bit."

"Good, follow me please and I'll make sure you get to your next class."

"See you guys later." Bolt said,

"Bye Bolt." Spyro, Cynder and Flame said as Bolt left with Bahadran to talk in private.

Bahadran lead Bolt to the office of the student disciplinary committee where the other members were waiting. Once inside Bolt saw two other dragons and was stunned by what he saw at first.

"Bolt allow me to introduce the other two heads of the disciplinary committee, my twin brother Taimus, and my girlfriend Levia."

Taimus looked almost exactly like Bahadran, but their coloration and tail-blade were different. Instead of being gray and light orange, Taimus scales where pitch black and his underside and wing-membrane was cobalt blue, his tail blade was a crescent shaped like the crescent moon, and his eyes were red colored. Levia was a water dragon with blue scales, white wing-membrane, a tear shaped tail-blade, white needle shaped bull horns, silver underbelly, and green eyes.

"Hello Bolt" Levia said.

"Hey there kid." Taimus grunted, "Care to explain why Trent and goons are targeting you for their pranks?"

"Taimus!" Levia snapped, "I'm sorry for his attitude, but we are very concerned about what is going on between you."

"Well, when we first encountered each other in Pinarus' class, Trent made me trip over his tail. Once I got up I said that either he came up with that prank himself or the birds nesting in his head gave him the idea." Bolt explained.

Taimus suddenly busted out laughing, "What!? You said that to Trent!? Hahahahaha!"

"And ever since he's been trying to pull pranks on me. I've been able to avoid them because a friend of mine pulled worse pranks. One time, she hide a spring loaded fist inside a locker and knocked out her target in one shot and sent flying across the room." Bolt continued,

Taimus laughed even harder after hearing that one.

"Why would she do such a thing?" asked Bahadran.

"She only does pranks like those if you really ticked her off, I have and suffered for it." Bolt answered.

"Honestly, I would like to have a word with this friend of yours at some point." Levia said.

"She's, not here." Bolt said.

Taimus, Levia, and Bahadran were stunned by what they heard.

"What do you mean?" Bahadran asked.

"She doesn't live around here is what I'm saying. As to where I was asked to keep that a secret till it is the right time for other people to know of them. One thing I pride myself in is keeping my word." Bolt explained.

"I will respect that decision Bolt. Regardless, if Trent and his gang get too aggressive you let us know and we will take care of him ourselves, o.k.?" said Bahadran.

"Yeah, it's our job to take on punks like them so youngsters like you can stay safe." said Taimus.

"The last thing we want is for you or others to get hurt, or worse." said Levia.

"I'll keep that in mind, but for now I'm good. It'll take more than what they can do now to get a hold of me. Compared to my friend, their pranks are absolutely nothing, however, they might get more aggressive with their pranks." said Bolt.

"Agreed, we need to put an end to this before it gets out of hand and quick." said Bahadran.

"Bahadran, it's almost time for Bolt's next class. He needs to get going." Levia noted.

"Ah yes, come on Bolt, I'll take you to your next class as promised."

"Right and I'll let you know if Trent and the knuckles-two try anything violent." said Bolt

Taimus laughed at the "Knuckles-two" bit while Levia shook her head slightly as Bolt and Bahadran left toward Bolt's literature class. The remainder of the day was uneventful, even Bolt's herbology/zoology class with the three stooges was peaceful. When Bolt returned to his room that evening, there was a package waiting outside his door. It was the carpet that he had ordered a few days prior. Bolt took it inside and opened the box then rolled the carpet across the middle of his floor. The carpet was 5' 10" by 4' 4", sapphire blue with silver box-like trimmings near the edge inside the carpet. In the center of the carpet was a unique emblem, it was a streak of golden-yellow lightning bolt surrounded by a current of wind going across the long-way of the carpet. It was just what he had asked for back at the shop when he went shopping with Spyro and Cynder. He adjusted the carpet until it was just how he wanted it to be. He then to a look at his clock on the wall, it read only four twelve and Spyro, Cynder, and Angel weren't coming that evening. So Bolt decided to go for a walk until dinner was ready. He had walked for about fifteen minutes when came across a balcony to his left that was open to the public. Bolt moved toward the balcony railing and looked around, he saw city of War Fang, the forests nearby, and the mountain that Spyro and Cynder had fought Malefor in the distance to his left. He returned his gaze forward and placed his head on the railing and began to ponder. What was his element? What was the great danger he was called to help Spyro defeat? Can he be of any true help in the fight? Would he ever see his friends and family again? At one point his mind wandered to the thought of if Jewels would like him or not, but quickly tried to get that notion out of his mind straightaway. He needed to constantly remind himself that it was not possible for him to be with a dragoness regardless of his feelings. He was a human in the form of a dragon, such a union wouldn't be possible he thought.

"Oh, hey Bolt." said a voice from behind him.

Bolt's heart jumped for he knew that voice. It was Jewels, and she was coming over to him!

"What are you doing out here?" she asked.

"Oh, uh nothing much. J-just thinking about things, and you?"

"I needed some fresh air, my boyfriend and his crew are completely obsessed with pranking this dragon that insulted him. I'm worried that he might take things too far and get this dragon hurt or worse."

Bolt's heart stopped and then dropped into his stomach. He had told himself that his feelings would only get him into trouble and hurt him deeply and now here is the proof that he needed that it won't work between them. Jewels already had a boyfriend so he needed to get over himself and stay focused on finding the evil that brought him here in the first place.

"Ah, well maybe you should tell the disciplinary committee or the dragon your boyfriend and his crew are after?"

"I've already told the committee about it, but I have no idea who the dragon they're after is so I can't warn him about them even if I wanted to." Jewels said as she walked toward the railing and got up and leaned over it.

"That is a problem to be sure." Bolt said as he moved to join Jewels on the railing to her left. Bolt looked over the railing toward the ground and saw Spyro and Cynder together talking. Then he noticed that there was a bucket full of cold water between him and Jewels under the railing. He wanted to knock over the bucket onto Spyro's head, but he held back because he felt that Jewels had enough pranks from her boyfriend. Then he heard a splash and Spyro's voice; "ACK!"

Bolt looked back over the railing to see that the bucket had landed on Spyro's head and he was dripping wet. There was a giggle to Bolt's right and saw that Jewels was covering her smile with her right paw and wing. She was the one who knocked over that bucket, when Jewels noticed that Bolt was looking she said; "Sorry, I couldn't resist doing it."

Bolt looked back over the railing and saw Spyro looking up at him then he shouted; "I'll get you for that one Bolt!" Cynder laughed during the entire moment. Bolt did a salute then looked back at Jewels and asked; "You like pranks too?"

"Yeah, but not to the extreme that my boyfriend does from time to time. He spends so much time with his crew that he barely speaks to me at all."

"Well, if he isn't being with you for you then you should stop seeing him period. Just walk right up to him and dump his ass point plank, tell him that it's over between you two because you're tired of being alone when he should be with you."

Jewels was stunned by what she heard, so was Bolt when he took a moment to think about what he had just said.
"U-uh I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said anything! So just forget it." Bolt exclaimed as he turned to leave.

Jewels grabbed him with her right paw and embraced him with her wings. "Please, don't go yet Bolt." she said.

Bolt was caught entirely off guard by this, his heart was racing like crazy. He didn't know what to say or even do in this situation.

"Thank you Bolt, you've given me the most honest advice anyone has ever given me. You're right I should dump him. I'll tell him that we're through tomorrow during the class that we have together." she said as she let him go and moved in front of him showing that she had tears in her eyes. She then leaned in and kissed him on the cheek before she left saying; "Good night Bolt."

Bolt was in a complete daze, standing there blinking excessively. It was just ten minutes till dinner time when the event that had taken place finally sunk in. Jewels had just kissed him, she hugged him first then she kissed him. He almost leaped for joy and shouted out loud to the world. Then he ran to the cafeteria to join his friends for dinner.

[During the time Bolt went for his walk]

In the teachers office, Terrador, Volteer, and Cyril were going over the assignments they had received from each of their students when Star and Crystal entered the room.

"Ah, afternoon everyone." greeted Star

The three guardians responded to Star's greeting and extended it to Crystal as well. Star walked over to Volteer's desk and asked; "What are you going over Volty?"

"I'm trying to decipher Bolt's writing a little, poor chap has a rough go about it."

"I'd imagine so, not having his parents around or even knowing who or what kinds of dragons they were. Must make it difficult for him." said Crystal.

"Yes, though I have a feeling that he may have wind dragon blood in his veins." said Star.

"What makes you say that?" asked Terrador.

"Well during his first flying lesson with me he flew through the whole test course on his first attempt. Also, when he took off I felt something, as if something was giving him an extra lift into the air. Then when he landed he was unusually exhausted from the endeavor."

"Perhaps, but his coloration is very odd for a wind dragon.' added Crystal, "My thoughts are him being an electric dragon. What do you think Cyril?"

Cyril was taken aback when Crystal looked at him, but quickly recomposed himself before answering; "Well we won't know for sure until his inner power awakens. Till then, we must teach him as broadly as possible to prepare him for when that day comes."

"Heh, you're right Cyril. We must wait until the ancestors decide when we are to know of Bolt's true powers." said Crystal.

"Quite though his combat skills are left to be desired by anyone." said a voice from the door.

It was Titanus and Pinarus, also coming in to attend to their returned assignments.

"He is very inquisitive and eager to learn as much as he can. Perhaps as to learn about himself through his studies?" stated Pinarus.

"Well he did not appear to be inquisitive during my lessons." Cyril said indignantly.

"Well since all you ever talk about in your lessons are about the Ice dragons of old, it's hard not to understand why." Volteer interjected. "And don't start your lineage rambling again, some of us getting quite tired of it."

Cyril growled at Volteer, they do get along well, but there are times that they quarrel which lead to a scuffle or two. This time, however, Crystal moved over to Cyril and placed one of her paws on his shoulder. The split second that she touched him, Cyril stopped growling almost immediately.

"Enough, Bolt has every right to be interested or uninterested in whatever he wishes. What is important is getting our work done, not squabbling with each other." Terrador remarked.

With that said all who where present got back to or began their work, all the while Cyril's mind and heart were racing. Why did he react the way he did when Crystal touched his shoulder?

[Sorry for the late update folks! Here is the next chapter, and I hope you enjoy it! Please R&R!]