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Dragonheart: The Return
Chapter 12
A Prophecy Unveiled
The smoke from Drumstone was just about visible over the trees where Caleb, Owen, Drago and their new found friends approached the monastery of Cardford. Looking at the monastery at night made it look so evil and cursed looking.
They approached the massive wooden doors of the monastery; Owen hammered on the door with his fist.
"Open up, open up!" he shouted.
The door to the monastery opened up and a friar peeped his head around the door. "Who calls at this time of night?" he said in a creaky tone.
Owen pushed past him followed by Caleb who carried Drago. Garon followed by his three knights Sirs Young, Blisset and Francis. Carrying the princess on his back was Sir Blisset.
"What is the meaning of this?" the friar asked.
"Long story, we need to see Brother Hansen," Owen said getting straight to the point.
"I am afraid Brother Hansen is asleep." The friar said to him.
"Then wake him," Owen said to the friar. "It is a matter of emergency."
The friar nodded. "Wait in the archives for him." He said. Owen nodded and they all went to the archives to wait for Brother Hansen.
The archive was dark, not a single shed of light was seen. Owen lit a match and lit a candle and started to use the candle to light other candles and wooden torches.
Sir Blisset placed the princess down into a chair. She was still knocked out.
Caleb sat down in a chair and instantly his mind wondered back to his parents. Seeing his parents lying in their bed dead was starting to take its effect on him slowly. The image of seeing them in their beds with patches of blood was enough to make him just give up life as he knew it. The image stayed in his head and it was showing no sign of moving.
He was all alone in the world, he had no one – except for Drago but that was beside the point. Another thing he noticed was that he would never get to know if he was going to have a brother or sister, his unborn brother or sister, killed in cold blood.
He placed Drago down on the floor, only for Drago to jump up and onto his lap. Drago looked at him and Caleb at Drago.
Caleb sighed and scratched the back Drago's head. "Looks like we are going to have to look after ourselves now, Drago." Caleb said.
"Our-selves." Drago managed to say.
Caleb laughed and patted Dragon gently on the head.
Owen approached him and knelt down to meet his eye level. "Keep your parents memory alive. And use it to make you strong."
"Do I avenge them?" Caleb asked Owen quietly.
Owen took his time in answering Caleb's question. He seemed somewhat pained in answering this question. "Only you can decide if you should avenge your parents death or not. It's not for me to decide." He said to him. "I have avenged once. In fact many times, and sometimes…" he paused letting his sentence hang in the air. "I doesn't sometimes…help."
Caleb looked at him and nodded his head at his understanding.
"You will be okay, Caleb. Trust me, you will be okay."
A clatter from nearby made them jump with the princess just stirring in her seat.
"What in devil…talk about getting some sle-" Brother Hansen stood in the doorway wearing nothing but his knight robes. "Owen…what are you doing here at this time of knight?"
"Some help and some answers." Owen said.
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The four wolves that were ordered by Mortimer to follow Caleb and Owen were sniffing out their tracks.
One of the wolves growled at the other three wolves signaling them that they had found a trace and where they were headed. The sprinted toward their goal picking up the earth as their sharp paws dug into the soil beneath their feet. Their destination: Cardford Monastery.
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Owen and Garon told Brother Hansen everything of what happened at Dumstone. He listened intently to each and every single detail that was told.
"After the attack on Drumstone, the king asked me to take Freya away from Drumstone; he said that you would know what to do once I have arrived here with her highness." Garon said.
"That I do." Hansen said. He turned to look at Owen. "And what exactly are you doing here?" he asked him.
"I was hoping you would shed some light on what has been going on. Something strange happens over Fern Woods, and then Drumstone is attacked, this hardly seemed like coincidence, this was planned."
"Planned?" Caleb frowned as he listened to Owen, Garon and Hansen speak amongst themselves.
"Consider everything that has happened over the past few days, before any of this happened. What was the first thing that happened before any of this?" Owen asked looking into Caleb's direction.
Caleb looked blankly at him. "What have I got to do with all of this?" he asked.
"What were you doing a few days ago before all of this happened?" Owen asked.
"Nothing," Caleb said simply.
"No," Owen said. "You were running from some troublemakers, and then what happened?"
Caleb knew instantly what Owen was getting at. "Oh, well I made my way to edge of Fern Woods; there I nearly got beaten unti–"
"Shorten the story please, Caleb!" Owen said to him hurriedly.
"Um…" Caleb said. "Well, I was met by a woman, who told me to take this sack, and to not let anyone take it, and for me to look after it. Inside the sack was the Egg, and a few days later, Drago was hatched from the Egg." Caleb said giving the short version.
"Where did this woman come from exactly?" Hansen asked.
It was difficult to not know where the woman came from. "Well, she came from Fern Woods, directly from within Fern Woods, actually." Caleb said.
Hansen's eyes widened. "From within Fern Woods?" he asked. Caleb nodded. "No one is supposed to go into Fern Woods, unless it was absolutely necessary." Hansen said to himself.
Everyone looked at him, eyeing him suspiciously. "What?" he asked them.
"What aren't you telling us, Hansen?" Owen asked.
Hansen looked at all of them, he then sighed heavily. "After you left Owen I did some research into the Egg that Caleb had and the baby Dragon that came from it. Do you still have that book I gave you?" Caleb nodded in reply, it was lucky that he saved it from his burning home. "What did you learn from that book?"
"Very little," Caleb said, he only read the book once. "Only that I think Drago might be an Elemental Dragon."
"And right you are," Hansen said. He walked away from them towards a bookcase. He tugged on a book, the bookcase slid back and into the wall, revealing a small stone compartment. Inside this compartment was a big blue book. Hansen picked it up and carried it over to the nearest table and threw it down on the table with a great bit THUD! causing everyone in the room to jump – Freya only seemed to stir in the chair, she still hadn't woken up.
"This book has been in our possession since anyone can remember; I never thought that I would have to use this in my lifetime." Hansen said.
Everyone apart from Freya made their way towards the table where Hansen opened up the book. The book itself looked fragile and worn but it still seemed to be in good shape. The pages were yellow and brown over the many years of being stuck behind a closed compartment and dust flew out from the pages to meet everyone that was in its sight causing them to rub and itch their noses, Sir Blisset sneezed loudly as the dust ran up his nose.
"It's all in this book." Hansen said wearily. "First off all, what do you all know of the first two dragons in that lived many thousands of years ago?" he asked them.
Everyone shrugged at Hansen. Caleb who read the story of Krill and Klera – the first two Dragons in existence – was a little bit informed on what happened so many years ago way before he was born. "I know for a fact that Krill and Klera were the first two Dragons in existence. They mated and give birth to twelve Dragons that were said to become of the most importance in the world. Krill was the strongest and could see into the future," Hansen nodded his head at Caleb who knew that he was right in every way, "Klera was bright, smart and cunning and planned for her race's survival. They taught the twelve Dragons everything they needed to survive. Before their deaths they mated one last time and gave birth to four more eggs which Krill dubbed The Elemental Eggs, some say that eggs do not exist, until Drago hatched from an Egg that I believe he may be an Elemental Dragon." Caleb stopped finally and got his breath back.
"And too right you are, Drago is an Elemental Dragon. One of the four Elemental Dragon in existence," Hansen said.
"But I don't understand," Sir Young said. "What is an Elemental Dragon? Are they important?"
"Far more important than anything in this world," Hansen said to Young. "The Elemental Dragons are, unexplainable; anyone who so much as knows about them will do anything just to get their hands on them. They hold so much power, power which could be used for either good…or evil." Hansen flicked through the pages of the book. "Before Krill died, Krill had the power of Sight, meaning he could see into the future. And he foresaw this very thing happening,"
"No," Caleb said suddenly. "No I read that he only foresaw a battle between a young boy with a Dragon trying to stop a Red Dragon and that was it, Krill saw no more." Caleb corrected.
"What you read was the battle between Drake and Griffin. Drake was said to have been the last Dragon of its kind. Draco's kin as it were, or son, so some believe. Aside from that, did you read the whole chapter of Krill and Klera?" Hansen asked.
"Not entirely." Caleb answered honestly.
"Then you never read that Krill foresaw an oncoming apocalypse before his death?" asked Hansen.
"That part I missed." Caleb said idiotically.
"Well," Hansen to him and everyone who was around the table. "Allow me to fill you in." Hansen cleared his throat and began to talk. "Krill, before his death foresaw the rise of an oncoming apocalypse. An apocalypse which is said to wipe out every single Human, man, woman and child in existence. Before his death, the twelve Dragons wrote down what their father saw and together, they interpreted this as a prophecy. Everything that has happened over the past few days is but the first chain in how the apocalypse starts." Hansen said.
Hansen looked down at the page he turned to, and ran his finger halfway down the page.
"This prophecy has no name, but it clearly depicts a mortal and a Dragon locked in a battle between beings from the Netherworld, their goal is to retrieve a power unlike any has seen before, power which comes in four parts and once combined, the four parts to whoever holds them will change the fate of our future forever."
"What kind of power are we talking about exactly?" Owen asked.
"Well, no one knows," Hansen said.
"You said," Caleb began saying, "that they come in four parts, four parts of what exactly?"
"Dragon Eggs of course," Hansen scoffed. "Why do you think this is happening, there are four Dragon Eggs, four Elemental Eggs, you Caleb have in your possession an Elemental Dragon that hatched from an Elemental Egg, what colour was the Egg?"
"Brown." Caleb answered instantly.
"Therefore you possess an Elemental Dragon that has control over the Elements of the Earth. the fact that you have Drago with you was because you were meant to have Drago, the Dragon Egg that that woman give to you was meant for you, you were meant to have that Dragon Egg, because you Caleb are part of this prophecy." Hansen said.
Caleb gasped. Everyone looked at him. "I'm what?" Caleb asked.
"You Caleb are part of this prophecy, is says in this book that it sees a mortal and a Dragon locked in a battle between beings from the Netherworld to prevent the oncoming apocalypse. That mortal, is you Caleb. This isn't just fate or coincidence, its destiny, what Krill saw before his death, was planned. Throughout history, time, everything was waiting for you to arrive, as soon as you grasped Drago's Egg in your hand, events started moving."
Caleb backed away and looked at Drago who sat by his feet looking up at him. "No," Caleb said. "No, this is all a joke," Caleb said laughing slightly, "I am not part of any prophecy, if I were I would have to be someone special, but I am not, I am nothing, I am just a boy who helps, or did help my father at the crop fields to gather food, and that's it. I am not important, I'm not even that, I am nothing!" he said thoroughly.
"Really?" Owen said to him. Caleb nodded. "Caleb Johnson, the boy who dreams of becoming a knight, who lost his parents, a boy who has protected his life to make sure no one sets a finger on Drago. I see it in your eyes Caleb; you look at Drago as if he matters to you,"
"Of course he does, he's a Dragon," Caleb said. "I have read that many people hate Dragons. They would do anything to them; kill them even, and for what? Money, who's to say that whatever happened in Drumstone is the reason why I had Drago with me, they would find him and kill probably! I can't let that happen, he is just a baby, a beautiful baby Dragon, and that woman told me to look after it and I swore that I would." Caleb said.
He paced back and forth for a few minutes before saying: "If I was part of this prophecy, my name would have been mentioned," he said.
"Caleb," Hansen said quietly. "Your name is mentioned in this book," Caleb looked at him in disbelief. "So is Drago's name."
Caleb rushed over, pulled the book from underneath Hansen's nose and read a passage from it aloud.
"'As soon as the mighty Dragon Drago is hatched, the future of the world will thereon forth be placed in the hands of Caleb. Should destiny follow on the same path as Krill foresaw before his death, hope will follow Caleb and Drago throughout their journey to prevent the Netherworldians in succeeding in their goals'." Caleb breathed heavily. "This is stupid," Caleb said. "Pure stupidity that's what it is, I don't believe this one bit. First my parents die along with my unborn brother or sister, and now you pin this on me. What kind of joke is this?" Caleb said angry.
"Caleb," Hansen said. "It's not a joke; this is a prophecy which states that you can save everyone in the world as we know."
"Part of the prophecy you said," Garon said. "What do you mean by part of?"
Hansen looked at Garon. "There are four Elemental Dragons, Caleb has one of them, it states in this book that three more people are destined to find the Dragon Eggs, but it doesn't say who, but Caleb and Drago will find them on their journey,"
"Journey?" Caleb asked.
"Yes, from this moment forth, you are all to make your way to the land of Kilgharrah," Hansen said.
Sir Francis frowned at the name. "Kilgharrah?"
"Yes, it's a land, a land hidden by magic, but more than that a land made of magic. It was named after one of the twelve Dragons." Hansen said.
"What will we find at Kilgharrah?" Garon asked.
"A lot of things, mainly what to do next. When you arrive at Kilgharrah find the elder called Ashton. There, Ashton will tell you everything. Everything in exact and complete detail. Ashton will tell you how to look after Drago, how to fight like proper knights,"
"Hey!" Sir Francis said.
"And what to do when…" Hanson looked over at the still unconscious Princess Freya. "When the princess wakes up."
Hansen left them and went over to a black box and started to rummage around in it throwing papers and scrolls onto the floor. "Where are you?" he said to himself. "Ah, here you are!" he said bringing over to them a rolled up parchment which he unrolled. "This will show you the way to Kilgharrah, and believe me getting there is the difficult part. Hopefully when you get there you will be safe."
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Mortimer's wolves came up upon the monastery of Cardford.
They snarled as their golden eyes scanned each and every part of the monastery. It looked fragile and unarmed with no guards, no one protecting the outside or its infrastructure.
Simultaneously they raised their heads up towards the starlit sky.
A black ominous cloud slowly swept over the land covering the starlit sky.
A pack of black Dragons flew toward the monastery; on the back of each Dark Dragon were their riders. As they passed over the monastery of Cardford, the lead rider signaled three Dragons to catapult a fireball each towards the base of Cardford.
The three nearest Dark Dragons opened their sharp black mouths and all three unleashed three big massive soaring heat balls the size of lava bombs at the base of the monastery.
The fireballs struck the base the base of Cardford and exploded with force creating massive holes in the side walls of Cardford.
The lead rider raised his arm and signaled the riders to advance.
The Dragon riders all jumped off their Dragons and fell free-fall towards the ground.
All landed on their feet and drew their swords and quickly advanced towards one of the three holes that provided easy access for them to storm and take the monastery.
A/N: Here we are after a long wait is chapter 12, I know it has been an awfully long time since I uploaded a chapter of Dragonheart last, but I have had some problems on my end, but all has been resolved. The next chapter will be up sometime late next week most likely, but I will keep you informed.
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