The Second Prophecy (Part 1 of the Dragdani Prophecies) Read Online Free Page A

foolish
enough to try it would be swallowed by the light and destroyed
within its radiance.
    John turned
his attention back to the necklace around Dragdani’s neck. His
eyes, to his own surprise, zoomed in on the silver piece, and he
saw that it was in the shape of a Dragon. It was looking to
Dragdani’s right, its wings half open, its front claws holding a
multicolored orb, and suspended on the rope at either side of the
Dragon’s head were two silver metal beads. As every Wizard knows,
the silver Dragon was the personal seal of King Dragdani. Wizard’s
and Witches young and old call it Dragdani’s Dragon, for the silver
Dragon was modeled on the Dragon Lanisic. He and Dragdani were the
best of friends, and some of the Wizards even called Lanisic
Dragdani’s Dragon.
    Lanisic was
the leader of the Jemonac Dragon Colony.
Salith destroyed the colony for siding with the King. He also
destroyed the Wizard Order of Thyeron, named for the largest of
Dorminya’s moons, and the old Coven Wiannta, which took the name of
the first Witch to recruit for the coven. After the Order, Coven
and Colony lay in ruins. They were slowly restored and renamed,
though it took many long years to rebuild what Salith had
taken.
    The Wizards
and Witches that remained needed a new sovereign. Thoucil was next
in line, but she refused and took the position of Grand Wizard
instead. Dragdani, as her son and heir, accepted the throne and his
coronation happened almost immediately.
    When the
Wizards had rebuilt their order, Dragdani then helped the withes do
the same, and in their turn, also helped the Dragons find a new
home. It is said that he went to the cleft of Lavoul and raised an
island from the very sea itself, that he moved it away from the
coast and further out to sea to make sure that the Dragons would be
left to live in pace.
    “ I see that
it’s happened already,” said Delsani.
    “ What’s
happened?” asked Helen.
    John turned
around to look at her. “My eyes have changed.”
    “ Not just
your eyes John,” she said, aghast. “Your ears have changed
too.”
    “ It’s all
right,” said Delsani. “All Wizard-Elves go through
this.”
    “ Why didn’t
you tell us that before?” asked John with a note of distress, now
that the novelty of his new eyes had worn off.
    “ It
must’ve slipped my mind,” said
Delsani.
    John walked
over to a display case. He could see his reflection agsin and
looked at his ears repeatedly from one to the other. They were
exactly the same height and width. They were pointed, and both had
one small notch near the top of the lobe. John had not seen this
before when he noticed the change in his eyes, though now could see
all of it easily. Then his eyes returned to normal, though his ears
did not.
    “ Why haven’t
my ears turned back?” he asked distraughtly.
    “ Well, that’s because they’re
permanent,” replied Delsani.
    “ Permanent,”
repeated John loudly; he was even more distressed with this. “You
said Wizard-Elves can do things that ordinary Wizard’s and Witches
can’t,” he said almost desperately. “So does that mean that I could
find a way to change my ears back?” he asked
optimistically.
    “ Perhaps,”
said Delsani.
    “ Why do
Wizard-Elves have those strange eyes?” asked Helen, making her
self-known once more.
    “ I’ll explain
on the way up to the Council Chambers. The Council will be waiting
for us,” replied Delsani.
    They began to
walk toward the far doors at the end of the hall to their left. But
just before they had reached it, John saw the display case that
held Dragdani’s wand. The one the King had used before he got his
Wizard-Elf abilities. It also held a set of his robes from the days
when he attended the old Wizard college, Jaldgiler, along with his
flying broomstick that he used to win the B.A.R (Broomstick Amateur
Races) twice in a row.
    The
once-great broom was a little worse for wear. Not too far from the
top of the broomstick shaft was a grip, a