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their swords, while two others had commenced to argue and push one another. Stone shook his head at the thought that Alexa would never know what happened to him but if she ever found out heaven help the niiwu.
     

EIGHT
    ASH RAN OUT OF ONE OF THE SIDE TUNNELS that he had dug as Zedock was sniffing Ella’s neck and they both had to feign indifference when the little dragon appeared. Zedock was a black dragon and Ella was a red dragon, something that had been frowned upon but when Ash turned out to be a rare dragon wizard it had changed all that. After all if a red and a black could produce a wizard, then there must be something right about the union. A dragon wizard had not been born in centuries; he was very special and just about everyone was looking forward to the dragon growing into adulthood and granting favors.
    Ash flew out of the cave like a bat being pursued by a bigger bat. “Mom, Dad, he’s out! He’s out and he’s coming to kill all of us and he’s a wizard too and just as powerful as I am only he has a lot more experience and we’re all doomed. I don’t know what to do? I’m scared!”
    “Well if we’re all doomed,” said Cinder-Ella out from inside the tunnel, “then I’m not cleaning my chamber.”
    Zedock approached his son. “Calm down Ash. What are you talking about? Who’s out?”
    “Dad, we have to fly far away from here and hide. There’s another dragon wizard and he’s going to kill all of us.”
    Zedock shook his head. “Now Ash, even if there is another wizard out there, and I doubt that, he doesn’t even know we exist. Why on earth do you think he’d want to kill us?”
    Ash was getting louder and louder. “Because he knows I exist and he knows that I’m the only one that could possibly kill him .”
    Ella took Ash’s face into her hand. “It’s just another bad dream, honey. Wizards are exceedingly rare and we probably won’t see another one for a thousand years or even longer.”
    They had never seen Ash frightened before, he was usually so confident and so it was disturbing to see the little wizard scared. Cinder-Ella and her sister Firestorm ran out of the tunnel crying.
    “We’re all going to be killed mother!” screamed Cinder-Ella.
    “I don’t want to be killed,” cried firestorm, her hot tears running down her face producing steam. “I’m too young to die, well I mean I’m not too young to die because babies die too, but I don’t want to die!”
    Zedock stomped his big dragon foot. “Stop it all of you. Ash had a nightmare and that’s it. Ash, you tell them it was all a dream!”
    Ash shook his head and stomped his foot, copying his father. “No, I didn’t just look at this!” The little wizard blinked his eyes several times going through several scenes in his head until he found the right one. He turned and played the image out through his eyes, casting the picture on the wall. The scene showed a big grey dragon killing people in a field of daisies, stomping them to death and being so utterly happy about it.
    “Oh my goodness how awful,” Ella said to Zedock. “It’s a grey dragon and look at the size of him. My father told us about grey dragons, but I’ve never seen one. What are we gonna do? Ash is a wizard, but he’s just a baby. Maybe we should run?”
    Zedock was trying hard to come up with something positive, after all he was the father and should know what to do, but he was young too and inexperienced in such things. He thought that he wouldn’t last long with that beast. “He didn’t use any magic he just stomped those poor humans to death. What makes you think he’s a wizard?”
    “Trust me father he’s a wizard. I can sense him from here.”
    Both Cinder-Ella and Firestorm had run back in and were peeking out of one of the side tunnels.
    “Let’s deal with facts Ash and not have our imaginations run wild.” Ella was thinking hard about what to say next. “Why on earth would he want to kill you, he doesn’t even know you.