Dan's Wheel of Magic
Copyright© 2025 by Pars001
Chapter 11
Ad’ella’s face showed horror, “No, you have nothing wrong, though we have had a request.”
“A request? So I have done something wrong. I was afraid of that, I’ll leave,” Dan started.
“No! This is a request from another clan. As we said, all the keeps with the clans are suffering. The red clan has heard of your success, they wish your help also,” Ad’ella said. “We have also heard that the elf king has troops hunting you.”
Dan nodded as he asked, “Has anyone been there before?”
“I am from there,” a different-scale patterned dragon stepped forward.
“Will I and my companions be safe there?” Dan asked.
The different dragon turned as a vision of another dragon appeared. “I am Lo’than, king of the red keep, you will be safe.”
Dan nodded as he told the red dragon to think of his home. A few minutes later they appeared in a dim and dark cave area. Dan nodded, then vanished for a few minutes, reappearing with his companions.
There was a growling as they turned, and there were more than a hundred dragons with spears and swords there. “So betrayal is the red clan’s way I see,” Dan smirked. “Kill me then and remember when I die, you will all die. I am the only cure for the disease.”
Several of those there scoffed at Dan, then Lo’than held up a claw. A shrewd smile came to his features.
“I am sure that,” Lo’than started, then was interrupted by Dan.
“I was informed today that this disease has been around for over five hundred years. In all that time, it has only gotten worse. I take it that your birth rate is near if not at zero?” Dan asked.
Lo’than’s eyes were wide as he growled at Dan. “I will not reveal,” Lo’than started, then was interrupted by Dan again.
“I already know, yours is not the first that are suffering. The blue dragons, the brown and green dragons, the dark and light elves. The felychs, the golems and the mer-people. All are suffering, the blue dragon clan has just birthed over two thousand eggs. Just how many have you had? Here,” Dan said as he laid a hand on Lo’than a green glow enveloped him and Dan.
A great many rushed toward Dan with swords and spears bouncing off the green light as if they weren’t there. Then all there, their mouths gasping as all the maladies with Lo’than disappeared.
“How ... how have you done this?” Lo’than asked with complete shock on his face. The shock was apparent with all the others there as they all knelt before Lo’than and Dan.
“As I said, the blue dragon clan is completely healed. You,” Dan indicated Lo’than, “are the only red dragon that is healed.” Dan’s eyes narrowed as he stared at Lo’than then the rest there. “I was told that my companions and I would be safe. As I see it right now, we are not. Perhaps we should leave? That way you can watch your clan die!”
Most of those around Dan growled as he raised a hand a light appearing immediately around him and the females. This time, when the red dragons rushed forward, most fell as they were washed back.
He then looked at Lo’than with a look of disappointment. “I hope that you and your people can become civilized one day, for now? Enjoy watching your clan die,” Dan said as all there started to yell at him and his companions.
Dan waved a hand, and they vanished, Lo’than staring at the spot where they had been. An angry Lo’than turned toward his troop commander. “Seize him! Thanks to you, our clan may be at an end.”
The Red Dragon commander scoffed, “We don’t need this human,” the commander started.
“You fool!” Lo’than yelled as he struck the commander across his face. “In over five hundred years, I am the first red clan member to be completely healed. There is no cure anywhere, and I fear you have doomed us because of your hatred and fear, take this fool away!”
The commander screamed as they took him away in chains. Lo’than looked to his new first in command. “We have to amend this before we are too weak to defend ourselves.”
The first nodded as he ran to gather all the other commanders. What followed was the greatest ass chewing that the red dragon clan had ever received.
Everyone saw the results of the scan that had been done on him. It showed that he had no hint of the disease at all. This amazed all of them, even more when they were told a human did it.
The worse thing, though, was when it was revealed that the now ex-head commander had pissed off the human. The same human that had been willing to heal the clan.
It was even worse when it was learned that the entire blue clan was now disease-free. Many had volunteered to help execute the former commander.
Lo’than sighed as he gathered all the commanders together to discuss how to get to come back. The problem was that they thought that they could force him. Lo’than shook his head as they had obviously not listened to him.
Dan and his companions appeared back at the entrance of the blue dragon clan’s home. They walked in as Dan sat in the first seat he came to.
Queen Ad’ella stared at Dan’s face as the grief that was on it worried her. “Dan?” she asked. “Is there anything I can do to aid you?”
Dan looked at her and shook his head, “No, I am afraid there isn’t. I healed Lo’than thinking it would excite them that a cure was near. Instead, they attacked me, then tried to attack my companions.”
“What happened?” Ad’ella asked a little worried.
“I told him that he was the only red dragon healed. I said I hoped the red clan could become civilized one day. As of right now? I told him that I hoped he enjoyed watching his clan die,” Dan said with a sadness on his face.
Ad’ella could feel the heartbreak that Dan was going through. It was obviously weighing heavy on him that he could help but had been rejected.
She was almost not wanting to tell him the news that she had received. “I am very hesitant to tell you the news that I received.”
“Let me guess the other two clans want my help?” Dan asked, then shook his head. “Not sure if I want to condemn another clan. The betrayal was bad enough last time.”
“Will you meet with them at least?” Ad’ella asked.
Dan sagged at her suggestion, “I might under one condition.”
An hour later Queen Ad’ella led Dan and his companions to a large room. There two large dragons as big as Ad’ella waited.
“Dan, this Gro’nem,” she said, indicating a brown dragon. “This is Hat’ren,” indicating a green dragon.
Dan nodded as he slightly bowed to the both of them and the rest that had come with them.
“We received word of the betrayal that you met with the red clan. I am sorry that it has tainted your opinion of dragon kind,” Gro’nem said with a slight bow.
“Please, do not lump us in with them. We know what you can do and beseech you to save the clans. We have seen the number of young that are here. It is amazing to see so many of dragon kind,” said Hat’ren.
Dan sighed as he reached out to Gro’nem and laid a hand on him. The brown dragon’s eyes got larger as his back straightened, and his color got heathier.
Dan then laid a hand on the green dragon, almost the identical thing happened. The fact that both the leader dragons were more than healthy, had their guards’ mouths hanging open.
“As I told Lo’than if we are betrayed, you will watch as the rest of your clan dies. I am the only one that can heal them. I won’t if you show the same contempt for me and mine that the red clan did,” Dan said as all of the two clans’ mouths were still hanging open.
“May I ask?” Gro’nem asked. Dan nodded as he continued. “We have a passage between the two clans. Would it be an inconvenience if you used it?”
Dan looked at Hat’ren, who was nodding his agreement. “Allow me time to think this over. I don’t want to be remembered as the human that caused the death of most of dragon kind.”
Both the brown and green dragon leaders nodded as Dan left the room. He was followed by his companions and Queen Ad’ella.
They went to another large chamber as Dan sat with a deep sigh. “I’m not sure about this. Like I said I don’t want to be the one that aids the end of most dragon kind.” He looked at Ad’ella.
“I have known all three of the leaders for well over two hundred years. What transpired at the Red Clan was as much of a shock to me as it was you. These two are by far calmer than the red clan,” Ad’ella said.
“I am just afraid of betrayal again, I was almost expecting something to happen. That was why I was as ready as I was. What do you think?” Dan asked.
“As I said, I have known all three for well over two hundred years. The brown and green clans aren’t as bad as the red clan, but they are starting to get there. I believe that we can trust them, though you might want to let them advise their clans first,” Ad’ella said.
Dan nodded his head as they all went back, he told all his companions what he was going to do. Both the leaders of the two clans nodded their agreement, then left, telling him they’d send a member back for him.
It was several hours later that Dan was alerted to the fact that a red dragon was at the entrance. He advised the guards and Ad’ella to tell the red dragon he was busy now and would, then he stopped and walked out to it.
“I am still of a mind to let the red clan die out, you broke my trust and your word. I will go back to the red clan when I am done with what I am doing now. I will give you another chance, but that’s it,” Dan said as he laid a hand on the messenger.
They all watched as the younger red dragon grew healthier. He then bowed to Dan with tears in his eyes.
Dan then turned and left the entrance. He hoped he’d done the right thing, especially with what he had to do.
An hour later another green and brown dragon appeared. They both bowed as Dan walked up to them.
“I think that the green clan is worse than the brown,” he said as he turned to the green dragon. I want you to think of the entrance to the green clan. All his companions joined hands, as with him and the two dragons.
Dan concentrated for a few moments, then nodded as they all vanished. A few moments later they appeared in a room not unlike the entrance to the blue clans cave system.
What got Dan the most was the number of dragons that were there. Plus the fact that they were all smiling and bowing to Dan.
A small smile crept upon his lips as he walked among the green clan, touching all that were bowing there. There were numerous gasps as almost a hundred were healthy again.
“Take me to the passageway. I want to heal a great number there also. That way, there are enough to help me when I start on the eggs,” Dan said.