Aria, Golden Dragon Queen

By John Arthur Betts

A kingdom ruled by Aria, Queen of Dragons is attacked and defeated by Dark Wizards. After one thousand years the Dragons fight back.

• Language: English
• Publisher: John Arthur Betts
• Release date: Mar 16, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301027095

John Arthur Betts

Enjoyment is writing fantasy fiction,Pleasure is spending time with my long suffering and wonderful wife

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Aria

Golden Dragon Queen

John Arthur Betts

Published by John Arthur Betts at Smashwords

Copyright 2013 John Arthur Betts

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Table of Content

Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

About the Author

Aria, Golden Dragon Queen

Prologue

Ten Thousand Years Ago

For ten thousand years the Dragons had protected man and beast against predators and evil, their magical powers made this land a haven of happiness and contentment. The Golden Dragon, Aria, Queen of all dragons looked far into the future and saw the darkness approaching.

With only fifty years before the evil started to encroach on this Utopia she summoned her royal guard, this consisted of twelve blue dragons and their riders, the Elite and most experienced of all.

She divided the land into twelve areas and gave each rider a dragon’s egg to hide and protect with their lives until such time that it was safe to emerge again into the light.

Protected by its own magic, each blue dragon and rider left the Queen for their assigned area and disappeared.

The Queen built a chamber beneath the mountain that served as their home and over the next 20 years filled it with eggs, this she protected with a powerful enchantment.

The Queen knew that if she did not survive the battles to come, each dragon that hatched would instantly have the knowledge and history of all that had gone before, but for an egg to hatch it must have a human rider born at the same time, the rider would have an instant mind link and would also know all the knowledge of the dragon lore.

Finally the day arrived when the evil king Petska with his dark magic attacked the borders of this great land, squadron after squadron of the brave dragons were overwhelmed as his dark forces took town after town until the final battle, the golden dragon queen Aria was last seen sorely wounded, plunging into a deep lake, never to be seen again.

Legends say that both Queen and rider died on that fateful day.

Chapter 1

The darkness has ruled now for one thousand years, this once happy land shrouded in misery, the population treated like slaves with barely enough food to survive.

The families of the Dragon riders fled to the wastelands in the four corners of the kingdom but not before many were killed by the evil king.

The old king Petska long dead had passed the evil reign to his son, who was now succeeded by a pompous overweight and arrogant great grandson Gustav.

The dark magic although still strong had weakened through each reign as each son of the son considered himself more invulnerable than the last.

New wizards were trained every ten years by the old mage, nobody knows his age but they say he was old when he led the dark forces against the dragons always at the side of King Petska.

Chapter 2

Aria saw the last of her