If you're looking for last minute Christmas presents, don't forget about Dragon Hunter and Dragon Heart, available at your favorite e-book store! In the meantime. Here's the first little bit of Dragon Betrayal for you!
Chapter 1: The Tycho Pride
“She’s so beautiful!” Lady Annie Hawkes
gasped, as the shuttle Tycho Pride
One slowly cruised past the spacedock where the Tycho Pride was moored. “I can’t
believe its been ten seasons…”
“She looks good as new.” Lord Makala Hawkes said, his arm
around his wife, Lady Mani Hawkes, as the shuttle slowly cruised past the massive
hull.
“She’s better than new.” Lord Elias Hawkes said. “Every
system as been upgraded with the best technology in the galaxy!”
Capella, Annie Hawkes’ Dragon Within rumbled, as she dabbed
at her eyes with a tissue, fighting back her tears.
“Mommy, what’s wrong? Why are you crying?”
“It’s because of Corporal Jeanne, isn’t it?”
Capella purred, as Annie turned and looked down at her two
daughters, Kiane and Liane. It was nine year old Liane who had asked her why
she was crying, her young eyes filled with tears. She stood beside her older
sister, who had her arm around her protectively. The eleven year old was almost
on the verge of tears herself.
Elias, Makala and Mani Hawkes, looked on with pride as
Annie knelt down beside the girls.
“That’s right. I was thinking about Corporal Jeanne and
that horrible day the Dragon Hunters attacked the Tycho Pride.” Annie said, pulling her girls into a hug.
“But I was also thinking about all of the other people who lost their lives
that day. Corporal Jeanne and the other Family Guards. The Hawkkurs of Combat
Team Seven and many of the Pride’s
crew.”
Annie looked up and winked at her aide and bodyguard
Sergeant Gabriel Giraud, who was fighting back her own tears, despite her own
stubborn determination.
“You know girls, Sergeant Gabby and Corporal Jeanne were
cousins.” Annie told her daughters, who turned to look at Sergeant Giraud.
Sergeant Giraud’s eyes grew wide. With a resigned sigh, she
glanced at Captain Blom-Weisser before knealing down beside Lady Hawkes and her
daughters.
Little Liane let go of her mother and threw herself into
Sergeant Gabby’s arms.
“S’gent Gabby?” The little Drakkon Princess asked. “Do you
miss Cor’prl Jeanne?”
“I miss her a lot, my little Princess.” Sergeant Giraud’s
carefully replied, as Kiane let go of her mother and joined her sister in the
Family Guard Sergeant’s arms.
“She and I were best friends.” She said, looking between
her two charges. “Just like you two.”
“We’re coming up on the Main Landing Bay.” Lord Hawkes
said, helping his wife to her feet. “Come over here to the viewport girls, where
you can see!”
The Tycho
Pride One slowed, the crew carefully turning the shuttle to line up
on the Main Landing Bay, where the memorial service would be held.
Procyon rumbled, as Elias Hawkes stared at the brightly lit
landing bay, thinking back to the desperate battle they had fought when the
Dragon Hunters crashed the stolen starship, the Sulka Atma, into the Main Landing Bay, a mass suicide
attack against the Tycho Drakkon.
We lost a lot
of good people that day! He mused, as his Dragon WIthin growled. He
glanced at his family, his parents and Annie talking to the girls, while their
Family Guard Sergeants looked on. And
we almost lost a lot more…
He looked up to see Captain Blom-Weisser watching him. The
stoic Family Guard Captain nodded respectfully as the shuttle eased into the
Main Landing Bay of the Tycho
Pride.
He returned his attention to the Main Landing Bay, where
two of the latest Dragon Class Assault Shuttles sat, across from one of the new
prototype Tycho LightFighters being developed to replace the aging Tycho Hawk
StarFighters which had been in service for over twenty seasons now.
The StarHawke Tycho glanced at his family, standing at the
viewport beside him. The newly rebuilt Tycho Pride, the Dragon Shuttles, and
the Light Fighters were all part of the StarHawke Tycho’s determination that
his Family would be ready for the Return of the Great Dragon, the Drakkon that
would restore the Star Empire and bring peace once and for all to the Thousand
Galaxies of the Known Universe.
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