The Blue Dragon Warrior

By Jerry Van Hook

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Apr 19, 2021
• ISBN: 9781664149014

Jerry Van Hook

Jerry VanHook fell in love with science fiction when he was in his teens. He has always wanted to explore space. He is an ex-Marine and father of three. He lives in Burlington, North Carolina and dreams to someday seeing the man shuttling back and forth from the earth to the moon

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Copyright © 2011 by Jerry Van Hook..

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1.

CHAPTER 2. SIMYA, The hidden nation.

CHAPTER 3. TOTAL COMMITMENT.

CHAPTER 4. THE BLUE DRAGON WARRIOR!

CHAPTER 5. FRIENDS.

CHAPTER 6. IT BEGINS.

CHAPTER 7. A TIME FOR CHANGE.

CHAPTER 8. WE WANT PEACE!

CHAPTER 9. PEACE DOESN’T COME EASY!

CHAPTER 10. NOW TWO HAVE BECOME ONE!

CHAPTER 1.

Simya is a mystical nation in what is to become China. During the time of dragons an old Mystic shaman has a vision of the coming of the modern age. He sees that man will no longer be governed by honor but by material lusts! After conferring with the Elders they decide to magically move their lands, which are the size of Texas, to the top of the world. We know that area as the Himalayans. They place it in a fold in space and time and hide it from the rest of the world. Tibetans have folk stories, telling how some people that climb too high up the mountain never come back. There are survivors that whisper about seeing dragons and ancient warriors of the Blue Dragon and mystical forest creatures that attacked them!

The old shaman knew that one day someone would come and try to take this mystical place away from them. He also felt that their nation would need a champion of great strength and courage. Simya exits in a timeless stasis. There is day and night and all the four seasons but everyone within its territory ages very slowly. The nation has been hidden for over 2500 years when the shaman forges a mystical sword from smelted dragon scales. The prayers that were said during the smelting process have never been revealed! During the forging of this sword the Elders release their mystic powers into the liquid metal in the cauldron. It takes a tremendous amount of heat to melt dragon scales. One of the Elders drops a blue chunk of metal that he found in the mountains after it fell from the sky over 1200 years ago. Its properties are like no other metal on earth.

They build a heat shield wall made from dark granite that is brought in from a far away region. The charcoal is made from a dense oak tree cut from the high elevations in the foothills of the mountains. There are ten bellows stoking the furnace to the desired temperature. First they pour the molten metal into a form made from packed sand and clay. This forms an ingot about the length of a man’s forearm and four inches wide and four inches thick. They use an ancient Eastern smelting technique that people think is originally from an island to the west in the Pacific Ocean, but was used here centuries before that island was inhabited. It calls for the metal to be folded along its entire length some 200 times. The melted dragon scales were the hardest to come by being that they had to be fresh off a living dragon! It took the monks six hours to extract the scales. The BLUE DRAGON is a rare creature to say the least. There are only six of them left in Simya. These six were hibernating in caves when the elders moved the nation and all that was in the boundaries of their power. Thus these mighty creatures were saved from extinction by way of default like the other forest creatures. It was the leader of this group of mystical creatures that taught the elders how to forge the scales and space metal into the legendary BLUE DRAGON SWORD.

Thus our story begins when an old mystic shaman opens a rip in time and space. He has been peeping through into our world for 100’s of years. Waiting and watching with the DRAGON SWORD in hand. Waiting for the sword to pick the one who will be its next wielder. There! Is he the one; the old man asks the sword. The sword vibrates violently. But he is not of our people says the old shaman. The sword vibrates stronger and begins to heat up. Ok, ok if he is your choice then so be it yells the old shaman! The shaman forms a triangle with his thumbs and forefingers. Folding himself into the lotus position he steels himself; for what he is about to do will take all his concentration and a lot of his mystical powers.

By the power of the dragon I summon you he says! As he chants this over and over a man is being pulled through the rip in space. As he comes through the rip Jerry is yelling and struggling to break free of the weird blue light that has just plucked him off the bleachers at his daughter’s division I. Softball playoffs. Landing unceremoniously on his back in a grassy area near a peach tree he jumps up immediately; looking around to see what the hell has just happened to him. Hearing something behind him Jerry turns and is rendered speechless, something that has only happened to him a very few times in his life. He stares with mouth open and jaw dropped his mind not accepting what his eyes are seeing. There before him not 20 feet away is a little old Chinese man sitting on a big assed pillow floating about four feet off the ground! But, before he can blink to get rid of this hallucination a blue dragon lands behind the little old man and they are both grinning at him. In the split second it takes jerry’s brain to realize that they are real he turns and runs for the rip that he fell through; its behind him and up in the air about seven feet.

Wake the hell up Jerry, he tells himself as he makes his headlong dash for what looks like the hole he just fell through. The shaman drops his hands on to his lap just as Jerry leaps into the air and the hole winks into nothingness! Jerry tucks and rolls to the left next to the peach tree. As he comes up he picks up a rock the size of a grapefruit and puts his back against the tree ready to try to defend himself. Do not fear us we mean no harm to you the dragon tells him. The dragon’s voice is booming and hurts Jerry’s ears at first. What do you want Jerry yells at them? The old man is laughing so hard that it looks as if he might fall off his pillow at any moment. Don’t tease the man Shu Long say’s the dragon. Shu Long just keeps on laughing. Tell him why he has been brought here old man insists the dragon! Oh, alright quit your nagging grumbles Shu Long. What’s your name boy? What’s the matter dragon got your tongue and the old man breaks into another string of cackling. He, he, he; he, he, he! Boy you look like you’re going to mess your pants. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, or already has adds the dragon and they both burst out laughing again. Shu Long, Shu Long! Was he trying to catch the rip or was he trying to fly away from us howls the dragon? Checks his pants I bet he shit himself jokes the dragon. At that the little man howls with laughter and does fall off his floating pillow this time.

Jerry figures he’s a dead man walking so he