Chapter three: more relatives

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Era dismounted her horse, Thorn, and fell over. She and her friend Yuaza had been riding at a full gallop for last two days now they were at Woadark Lake and dead tired. Their dragon was now the size of a horse. They had found out that it could talk to them through thoughts, the dragon wanted to be called Agni because it meant fire in some strange language. So now Yuaza, Agni and her were all headed for Kuasta.

"Come on Era we have to get going for all we know the empire could have sent an entire army after us, or worse. I heard Galboratrix has a rider in his army. You know one with experience! That we don't have! So get your butt back on that horse or I'll…" ranted Yuaza adding to Era's killer head ache.

"All right I just needed to stretch, but it still wouldn't kill us to get a break." Era said as she climbed into Thorn's saddle,

Yuaza sighed "You're right. Maybe a quick break won't hurt us. Hey I can teach you some magic. Cause now we're riders and we have even more magic power."

Era seemed to deflate in her saddle when she heard in her head. She's right you know.

Would you shut up, Angi! No one asked you

But she's still right.

Era groaned then dismounted Thorn again. This time she was able to stay on her feet. As she did this Yuaza dismounted her horse, Barzul, and went into the wagon they kept with them and took out a book on magic. Agni laid down to watch.

"I'll teach you some basic like how to fire and block the enemy's spells. So let's start with the attack say; brisingr"

Era took a deep breath and summoning up all her energy then said "Brisingr!" She felt some of her energy leave her but she still was strong and the bush in front of her was engulfed by purple flame.

"You did it! You can use magic! Now to block you simply say blothr" Yuaza said proudly. Then she picked up a stone and threw it Era whispering something that made it go unnaturally fast.

Era quickly and desperately said "Blothr" the stone stopped mid air and dropped harmlessly to the ground. Era breathed out amazed "Wow! It worked!"

"Of course it worked dummy. That's good for now we have to get moving. These mountains give me the creeps.

The next few days followed in the same suit them ridding all day then practicing magic for about five minutes. Despite the short training sessions Era caught on quickly because most of the stuff she already knew from when she helped Yuaza learn magic for the first time. Soon they we're both at the same level of magic and learning out of the books they had found skipping anything that seemed to be dark magic. Mean while Agni grew bigger and stronger. One day he announced that he was strong enough to take one of them to ride. This of coarse raised quite a stir. They both were his rider but who would ride him if only one could ride. The answer was that Yuaza got him in the morning and Era in the evening. They had to begin to ride him close to the ground so when they fell off him it wasn't too far to the ground. This was because they did not have a saddle, even though riding was an exuberating experience it did murder to their legs. But as the days went by they got better and better.

One day they decided they were too tired to fly so they rode their horses. By midday they reached the fields before Kuasta, they took a break and decided to dig through the wagon again before they reached Kuasta. To their delight they found two cloaks that fit them and Era found again the little dragon pin. She put it on and immediately she felt a new power swell up inside her. Then they continued to ride about an hour latter they broke out into a full gallop because an unusual shaped shadow looming over them.

They sky

Murtagh looked down at the ground and saw two horses running beneath him, with a wagon. he didn't need to look twice to know who they were he told Thorn to swoop down on them so he could get a better look.

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the ground

the two girls looked at the dragon coming at them when Era had a great idea she looked at the dragon and whispered "Blothr"

The dragon stopped in mid-flight and fell to the ground sending the rider flying. Yuaza rode over to the dragon while Era rode over the rider after magically bonding him she demounted and quickly kicked him in several places. When Yuaza rode over she said "Nice Era"

Murtagh's head straightened a bit as the name rebounded into his memory. Then it hit him he had heard the name before. It was his first memory. His mother had made him swear to her before she left to protect his sister, Era, from any and every danger if he ever met her. She told him to say it in the ancient language. Then his mother had left with his sister.

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how was that what do you think? Crazy huh? Wait till my next chapter be afraid be very afraid