The Dragon and the Apprentice by Sully Tarnish

The one that sent him to his mountain still preyed upon him.He didn’t remember her name, but he remembered her tears. Arian was one of the latter.There were many things he did in his past when the King of Kings, Constantine, asked. Some were just tired of dealing with mortals, but others had something they wished to forget for a while. When he came here six hundred years earlier, it was to remain there for many thousands of years.The Dragon Kings sought their mountains for many reasons. Mostly because Arian had briefly joined Ulrik in his quest to rid the realm of humans.Thoughts of Ulrik were pushed aside as Arian found himself thinking about why he had taken to his mountain.

Arian hated him for it, but he could understand. Hadn’t the Fae Wars killed enough Fae and dragons?Then again, as a Dragon King as old as time itself, they were targets for others who wanted to defeat them.For Ulrik, he just wanted revenge.

It infuriated Arian that they were once more fighting the Dark. They were Ulrik’s dragons, and he would want to wake them soon.But it wasn’t just Ulrik that was causing mischief. The banished and disgraced Dragon King hadn’t just made a nuisance of himself, but he somehow managed to get his magic returned.Which meant the Kings needed to put extra magic into keeping the four silver dragons sleeping undisturbed deep within the mountain.

After all the wars they had been involved in, Arian wasn’t happy to be woken to join another.Because of Ulrik. Not only had it been six centuries since he had been in human form, but there was a war the Dragon Kings were involved in.Con and the others were waiting for him to join in the war. He was shaking off the dragon sleep from the past six hundred years. Arian paced the cavern in his mountain in agitation and a wee bit of anxiety.

The Dragon and the Apprentice by Sully Tarnish