Drakaina Series Book 1: Secrets from Inside

Magic Room

Light starts to appear on the walls and nine small windows appear at the top. The room seems circular and could fit roughly a hundred horses in here comfortably. The walls are the charcoal black as on the arch entryway. There is purple rhinestones every other stone up to the windows of the walls. There is a chair in the middle of the room. No straps or any form of mechanism to hold you down just a chair. Which I find odd, but I keep looking around. There is a wall behind the chair that goes up atleast thirteen rows full of jars and what seems to be spices and herbs. There is glass jars that look like science experiments on all the tables.

I walk a few more steps and notice that Soran is staring at me. I start to become very uneasy and stop moving.

"I will need you to sit in the chair. There is no need to tie you down as the potion will do the trick for us." He says motioning me to the chair and I oblige. "This potion may make you queasy and will give you a lot of emotions when you wake up. Just know that you are in a room of safety. No dragon can die in this room, atleast none have yet." He said with a evil smirk on his face.

"I am still here Tova, but done act like you know. Pretend you are alone and we will see what this man is up too." I hear Dahlia and my hear rate starts to slow.

"What is in this potion Soran and why should I trust you?" I say.

"You should only trust yourself and your dragon in our world Tova. The potion is going to enlighten you and open your mind. That is all I will say. Now go ahead and drink we have much to do today." He said handing me this cup of what smells like the most disgusting drink ever.

I drink it and within a few seconds I start to feel sleepy. My eyes start to close and I drift off into a world of dreams, atleast so I thought.

"Tova, I am here still. This is a very odd potion he has given you. I was just given a glimpse of my past as well. This is going to be very painful for you mentally. I will be here the whole way." Dahlia says and I feel calm.

Memories start to emerge in my mind. It is as if I am right there while it is happening. My mother and father are there and my brothers. They are all staring at me but I seem small or maybe it is when I was young. I look around and see flowers in my hand. Daisys and sunflowers, that smell amazing. Wait, how can I smell them if this is a dream? I look around behind them and see a group of people. I do not recognize them. My family looks concerned. A woman pushes through the crowd with a juice she tells me to drink. I do so and I fall asleep.

The next memory I am in a classroom of students around middle school age. All the kids are staring at me and I am floating above them it seems. My parents rush in with another adult they seem to be yelling at me or maybe they are concerned. My mother waves her hand and everyone but her and me and my father are asleep. They rush me out the door and to the house. I can not hear what they are saying though the whole ride. The same woman from the beginning comes and gives me the juice again. We pack up and leave.

It seems we have now fast forwarded to year one in high school. I am in a science classroom and everything combusts when I touch the burner. Everyone runs out except me, I stay behind playing with fire. My hand is on fire it seems but I don't seem in pain. The teacher runs to me and puts my hand in the sink. She looks so worried and then looks at my hand and then to me. She now has the look of shock. I look down and expect to see a burned hand but do not. She takes my arm and drags me to the principles office, after a while my parents show up and my mom waves her hands again. The same thing happens. We rush home and the woman comes and gives me a juice to drink.

I am older now in this memory it seems. Maybe not shy of a few months ago. I am in the field at our old home. I see a shadow below me and see wings but not like Dahlia's these are connected to my human form. I can feel them on my back and they flutter. I raise off the ground and it seems I am flying or hovering I can not tell. Then as quick as I raised I fell. I seem annoyed as I hit the ground with my fists. I sit down and put my hands around my knees. I seem to be very sad. My mother comes over to me and waves her hand only nothing happens and she panics. She grabs my hand and takes me to the house. A few moments later the lady comes back with a juice, I seem to refuse but they insist and I drink it. I fall asleep.

"Tova! Wake up, something is happening to our human form. Stop remembering the memories, someone is watching." Dahlia yells in my head.

I quickly notice a presence but can not see anyone as now it is dark. I tell myself this is not real over and over. When I finally start to come to, I see that my arms are engulfed with this sparkly gold vine, but it is not touching me. It seems to reading me. Then I notice it is connected to Soran who I see's eyes are white.

"Dahlia, what is happening to him. How can I get free?" I ask looking around.

"Tova, I was able to uncover alot in your memories with you. I saw and heard almost everything your parents discussed. I took liberties of inquiring myself as you were being dragged from memory to memory. Flick your left wrist and say, geasróg" I do as she instructs.

I flick my wrist and the gold sparkles go away and Soran eyes come back to normal. He looks at me shock in his eyes. He raises his hand to do something but I react quickly. I push my hands towards him in the air and yell, "aer larch!" He falls to the ground and I run out of the room back in to the library. I am running to the door when all of the doors slam shut. I turn around and see Soran standing there with his hands raised.

"Did you really think a young ling like yourself could outsmart an ancient like myself?" He asks and then I am in a trance and everything turns black.