Chronicles of Den'dra: A Land Torn: Ancient Powers Awaken Read Online Free PDF

Flight was slow and clumsy but eventually Iradaemi soared over the mountains and into the dragon towers. She glided into the yawning cave and settled carefully to her feet. She held the child delicately with the claws of one forelimb and walked on her other three legs.
    As soon as she had landed a small dragon had rushed to her side. Less than half Iradaemi’s size the other dragon was full grown of sixty years. A deformed wing prevented flight so the dragon lived in the towers helping the other dragons.
    “ Are you injured?” The reddish dragon queried.
    “ I am fine but I must see the elders.” The reddish dragon gave Iradaemi’s paw and its hidden parcel one last curious glance before leading the way. The cave dwindled in size and led far into the heart of the mountain. After a while it opened into a huge cavern. Fires warmed the air and shed light on the council chambers of the dragons. The reddish dragon replenished a couple of the fires at they passed. It irked Iradaemi that her guide didn’t share her impatience for an audience.
    “ Wait here.” The reddish dragon left Iradaemi sitting near one of the fires while he walked to the three dragons in the center of the room. She waited until the reddish dragon had returned.
    “ They will see you now.” Iradaemi stalked over to the three elders. After taking care of the pleasantries she went straight to the point.
    “ I found a human child.” Iradaemi opened her claws and carefully laid the sleeping child on the stones before her. The contact with the cold earth woke the child.
    “ I thought I smelled a human about you. What is the meaning of this? Humans have tried stealing our young for years. Do we now steal their’s?” Rothlt glared down at the child. He was a larger than normal black dragon. As the oldest living elder he was looked to as the leader of dragon kind.
    “ This child was abandoned. She would have died if not for me finding her.” Iradaemi realized how ridiculous her words were. Only a short while ago she had planned on squashing the child like an annoying insect and now she was trying to protect it.
    “ Any other dragon would have ended its suffering but you saved it. Why?” Iradaemi was about to answer Rothlt’s question.
    “ There is dragon blood in this human.” Ovesa a pale green dragon spoke. “I can smell it on her. The legends are true.”
    “ It is true.” Rothlt agreed. “Dragon kind has not always been as we are now. There was once a time when some of our kind were able to shift between the form of humankind and dragon kind. They could walk among humans or master the skies. This power was lost to us many years ago. Perhaps it is possible that one of these Dragon Lords survived and now the gift had returned in this child.”
    “ The ancient runes speak of the return of the dragon king who is a Dragon Lord.” Ovesa spoke again.
    “ The runes speak of the dragon king not queen. This is clearly a girl.” A dragon that looked a shade between yellow and blue spoke next.
    “ Even if this is not the Dragon Lord spoken of, it is possible that this is his mate.” Ovesa offered an option.
    “ No matter who she is, we must protect her.” Rothlt pondered the child. “If this is truly a Dragon Lord, only time will tell. We should not ignore any possibility that the dragon lords have returned to us.
    “ We cannot raise her.” Iradaemi was forced to agree with Ovesa’s statement. “The child requires food that we cannot give.”
    “ We could give her to the elves. They are capable of caring for her.” The third elder offer his idea.
    “ They dislike the humans as much as we do. They would never raise a human child.” Iradaemi had seen several battles between the two land bound races. They didn’t battle along their shared border simply because neither had any desire for what the other held.
    “ We have a peace with the elves. This is not to say that they are allies let alone that we would trust them with the rearing of