Chapter 4 Four

He looked back at me and nodded. I patted him on the back and mouthed you'll be fine before he jogged up to the stone.

He picked it up in his right hand and held it out, at first nothing happened but then it let off a bright golden colour.

"That's an unusual one, Dragon rider hybrid!"

A big grin settled on his face and he marched off the stage happily. My turn.

I walked cautiously over to the stone and cupped it in my hands, it let off a faint green glow before turning gold.

"Dragon ri..."

Everyone gasped as the stone began to flash different colours quickly before letting off a bright white light.

Murmurs were heard around the crowd,

"Not possible..."

"What is she"

I looked over to the hooded figure who smiled warmly.

"So its true" he whispered to himself.

"Here we have a Mythica!" he shouted.

Everyone gasped and talked amongst themselves, I sighed heavily and looked at everyone's shocked faces, so much for keeping my abilities quiet.

I walked off stage quickly to join Chase and the others, they gave me worried glances but I shrugged them off. We continued to watch as everyone else took their turn and joined us.

"We will be leaving shortly, prepare yourselves as we travel by dragon," said the man who shouted out our forms.

He stared up at the sky in concentration and then turned back to face us, removing his hood to reveal dark brown hair that hung down to his shoulders. The others also pulled down their hoods to reveal they were all guys and all only looked one or two years older than us.

"My name is Jack," he said "I am a third-year student at Angel Academy, these are all second years and dragon riders he said gesturing to the other guys.

"This is Shane, Axel, Felix, and Dexter," he said pointing from left to right.

They all bowed their heads when their names were called. We smiled in nervously response and waited patiently.

A ground shaking roar sounded above us.

We all looked up to see five dragons circling the air, they all flew down swiftly and landed, in turn behind their rider.

"Three students will ride on one dragon accompanied by its rider," said Jack.

"They obviously planned, knowing there would be 15 of us going," said Zack through the link.

"Or they're psychic," said Chase sending excited vibes through the link.

We all rolled our eyes and got into groups of two and joined with one other pack member to make it fair.

"Hey hybrid," said Hunter as he walked over to me and Chase.

"She's more of a super hybrid actually" growled Chase stepping in front of me.

I don't know what it was about Hunter but Chase had always seemed to really hate him, which was really unusual since Chase wasn't the type to hate anyone.

"Whatever" replied Hunter "same difference"

I shook my head and stepped around Chase.

"I guess what you mean by that is can I travel with you?" I sighed folding my arms.

He shrugged his shoulders and smirked.

"Only if I can sit behind you," he said stepping closer a smirk clearly present on his face.

"You're not touching her" growled Chase pushing him back.

"Chase?! Seriously? Now who's being overprotective, besides he's not worth it" I said in his mind pulling him back.

He calmed down slightly and stood behind me sending Hunter warning glares.

Axel walked over to us and led us over to his dragon, it was had mainly black, shiny scales with silver coating the tips of its spikes.

It let out a low, rumbling purr and lowered its head towards Axel. He placed his hand on her head and sighed.

"This is Nacendra," he said pushing his pitch black hair out of his emerald green eyes "who's getting on her first?"

Chase pushed me forward gently. I walked towards the dragon and took Axel's outstretched hand.

"Aurora isn't it? The Mythica?"

"Yes," I said running my hand over Nacendra's nose.

"She likes you" he laughed "that a first," he said as she continued to purr deeply making the ground shake.

He boosted me quickly up onto her back, and I held on and settled down, trying to contain my excitement. I couldn't believe it, I was going to fly!

I felt Chase awkwardly scramble up behind me.

"This is so cool," he said excitedly looking around at the other dragons.

Once Hunter was on behind Chase, Axel vaulted up in front of me.

"Everyone hold on to each other tightly" he called over his shoulder.

I wrapped my arms around Axel's torso and felt Chase wrap his arms around mine.

"Your gonna have to hold on asshole" shouted Chase to Hunter who was being stubborn and refused to hold Chase.

He reluctantly held lightly onto Chase and sighed. I could fell Axel chuckling in front of me as he shook his head at the two boys behaviour.

"Ready?" He asked.

Without waiting for a reply, Nacendra bounded forwards and leapt into the air, her wings creating the power of a hurricane. Within seconds we were high in the air.

We saw the other dragons with the rest of our pack up ahead, Nacendra flapped her wings powerfully and easily caught up to Jack's dragon who was flying in front.

"This is amazing," I said to Chase as we sped through a cloud.

"Yeah it is but I keep eating your hair," he said shaking his head.

I felt him laugh lightly behind me.

"Sorry" I sang sarcastically.

I moved my hair to one side and he rested his head on my shoulder and sighed.

"Much better, I even have a headrest," he said triumphantly.

I rolled my eyes and looked around, everything looked so small from up here, we passed a human town and a couple of onlookers gazed in awe at the incredible creatures.

The humans only knew about dragon riders because they were able to see them as their protectors, because of this, the academy had to put protective barriers around its perimeter to stop them entering so that they couldn't find out that creatures like werewolves and vampires roamed the earth, as that would cause all kinds of problems and most certainly result in war.

But even then only a select few humans knew about us, we lived in two completely different worlds, ours was filled with magic and old traditions, and theirs was filled with technology. The was a great barrier separating us from the human world that they like to call Earth, the only way into our world is through rare portals that lay in unhabitual, dangerous lands with the intention of staying hidden. Only a few had ever crossed it, and those who did now lived in our world, coexisting with us... but only learning about our worlds true secrets if they were truly special.

Nacendra dipped through a cloud playfully soaking us in the process. I snapped out of my thoughts and we all laughed, allowing joyful emotions to flood through the new the fading pack link.

Everyone was happy.