The Inner Dragon Book Four by Colin Platt - HTML preview

Overview

Grunwald Magnusson was always a lonely person, ever since childhood where he struggled to understand people. People were his antagonists. People were always interfering in his life. Why did his father give him this ridiculous name and leave him when he was only five years old? Only his father could tell him what to do with his life. He left him a coded message which took Grun months to decipher. The message was locked in a cabinet under the mirror which Grun was always frightened to look into. It had runic symbols running around it. His mother had given Grun the key when he turned twenty one. Grun had found another key in the cabinet and a letter. The letter was from his father. It said he must begin the quest? After much work Grun finally managed to find the hidden box. Why didn’t his mother know anything about it, or anything relevant about his father? All she said was she was told by Grun’s father never to sell the house and to give him the key.

Grun was on the threshold of something which would alter his life forever.  The box which was buried in the outhouse under the floor contained an assortment of things. It would take Grun three years to even begin to understand them. The main thing was the book.

After another three months of decoding he found the second letter hidden behind the fitted bookshelf. The letter said that he should stand in front of the mirror at a certain time and he would be given certain powers!

The time was the spring equinox. Grun stood in front of the mirror at twelve o clock. He meditated for several minutes with his eyes closed. When he opened them he could see a man writing a message on the inside of the mirror. He knew this man to be his father.

Grun had copied the message which remained for ten minutes after his father disappeared. Grun was disappointed at not being able to talk with his father but he knew that his father had Grun’s welfare at heart. Grun started to practice the exercises which were given him. The details are too secret to reveal here.

Scene nine: the Bedroom

Grun went straight to his bedroom to take the chest and other things to the hiding place under the outhouse floor. He knows the police wouldn’t be able to find it. All he is worried about, is the reaction of some of the neighbors and people who believe him and his family, to be devil worshipers. He knows through experience, that people are prone to be easily influenced and excitable. Dad said in his writings that people were not to be trusted; they couldn’t be expected to keep a secret.

Grun is now totally secure in my abilities. He knows things which could send an ordinary person insane; entities from the inner regions are constantly trying to influence his mind, but Grun is now on the brink of another fantastic meeting with his father. This time, he would be given a confirmation. Grun goes to his bedroom to make ready. He takes out a druids robe from the wardrobe, and stands in front of the mirror. After several minutes, his father appears dressed in the same style; there are seven other druids standing behind his father; after chanting and praying, the conversation started thus…

Father:

Grunwald, you are to leave the house early in the morning. The police will come at five o clock to search it; they will use a swat team, it will be traumatic for them. Things cannot be altered; it was fated long ago; place yourself nearby to help anyone who may get hurt. The Dragon will not relent at this stage. It has to protect whatever it is charged with.

Grun:

I feel secure in my abilities, but I lack friendship, Anna is now against me.

Father:

Phone your old friend Kyle Simonson, he owes you through karma, just say the words that are in the ‘Influence’ page in the Great book. Don’t forget to chant the code first, to make the script appear. I cannot relate it to you hear, it is too secret. Make sure you don’t use the Dragon coin too much; it will influence you in the long run; the incidence with the girl was OK but the touching of the boy in the shop, could have been bad; be sure you are using it for good, always. Now, the elder druid will stand at my side and we will place our hands against the glass, you do the same, and you will receive the next part of the enigma. Be sure to come back in two days.

Grun is now alone. (Thinking to himself)

I have received another section of the book in mental form, the code to make the script appear in the great book is very hard to memorize, but I know I can do it. I am starting to upgrade again, and I will have to be careful of overloading my mind.

Grun makes preparations to move out of the house that night. He knows that the house is being watched and he isn’t worried about it as he will be in invisibility mode when exiting. He hides the mirror and everything else of importance in the secret compartment behind the book shelf.

He takes out the coin and inspects it; it is very old and shiny, the dragons head looked almost alive as Grun’s eyes fall on it. He feels a weird sense of foreboding, as his mind begins to realize what will happen in a few hours’ time. Grun quickly put the coin away, then settles down to sleep.

Scene ten: the Garden

At four o clock Grun wakes up, and meditates for a few minutes; his mind is settled and he feels rested, he walked to the back door where he knows the policeman who has been on duty there since one o clock, had slipped into the hedge to relieve himself. Grun pressed the coin and disappears. He opens the door slightly and slips out; he doesn’t need to lock it, as he knows the police wouldn’t be able to get in. He makes his way to the hedge to survey the area. When he looks back he is astonished at the sight of a gigantic snake like dragon creature that is coiled all around the house. Grun feels scared and unsure of his feelings. The sight of this mystic being, unsettles him; it is sleeping at the moment, but at five o clock, it will awake with a vengeance, as the swat team crosses the line.

A convoy of four large vans arrived at the corner of the street.

Swat team leader: (on radio)

Prepare to advance in figures two, at 0500 hours.

Grun can see the team as they quickly move to positions of concealment around the house, he looks on in awe, as the dragon starts to awake. He knows the team can’t see the dragon, but he can and the feeling is overwhelming as it lifts its huge head to strike. The first two members of the team have a large metal ram known as ‘The Big Key,’ they arrived at the invisible line. The dragon strikes; sheets of flame blow a large hole in the ground inches from the two members. They are thrown back almost to the hedge. Both are unconscious and severely burned.

The other members are now preparing to fire weapons. Grun has to move fast. He reaches the nearest team member, who is about to fire his weapon. Grun snatched it out of his hands and throws it over the invisible line towards the house. He knows it can not be retrieved.  He quickly moves to another member and does the same. Grun knows that if the weapons are fired, the bullets will come straight back to the firer. He can’t reach the team member who is almost at the line. The officer is going to break the window when there is a huge fireball which lifts the officer over the next doors fence and through the shed window.

The dragon moves around to the back of the house. Grun watches the team leader as he wonders what to do; Grun knows he is perplexed, Grun can understand why. The leader is now on the radio calling for backup. Grun looks up as a fireball lights up the early morning sky at the rear of the house. He begins to race around the back, when he sees a swat team member running around to the front and on fire. It is a terrible sight to see. Grun is about to try and douse the flames when other team members come running to help. Grun can do nothing but observe. By this time the police have cordoned off the area and neighbors and other people are now gathering around. Grun decides to leave the area. The damage has been done, and there is nothing Grun can do about it.

Grun:

Why can’t they just leave me alone! All I want is peace.

Scene eleven: Police headquarters

Chief Superintendent Barton:

What the hell happened over there?

Swat team leader:

We don’t know, sir, the place must be booby trapped.

Chief Superintendent Barton:

What do you think, Inspector Macnee?

Inspector Macnee:

I have said before, sir, that the Magnusson place has always been known as a local oddity. Some people won’t walk by it. They say there is a curse on it.

Chief Superintendent Barton:

Nonsense! It must be as the swat leader say’s. It is booby trapped. I’m going to get authorization to get a helicopter to drop a team to break through the roof.

An officer appears at the door and says, Chief Constable on the phone, sir, he wants updating about the Magnusson case.

Chief Superintendent Barton:

Bloody hell! OK, tell him I’ll be right over. Inspector Macnee, if Grun Magnusson is not in the house I want you to find him and fast. There are four critically injured men to be accounted for.

Swat team leader:

I want to ask permission to be on the team to break through the roof, sir.

Chief Superintendent Barton:

I’m going to try and get clearance to get an S.A.S squad in there. But I understand what you must be feeling. If it was up to me I would bomb the bloody place.

Inspector Macnee: (speaking to his colleague later)

If they had just used a little tact they would have taken Grun without a struggle, and avoided all this trouble.

John Watkins:

I think you are right. I feel strange when I am in that house. I can’t explain it; it gives me a weird light headed feeling.

Inspector Macnee:

Yes, me too. You know we will never get Grun; he won’t be caught unless he wants to be. I told the chief about the image on the door that disappeared and the photos also, but he just dismissed it with a laugh. I know one thing for sure, I’m never going back to that house; I’ll retire first.

An officer appears at the door of Inspector Macnee’s office and says, did you hear about the swat team member who got burned at the back of the house? He says he saw the outline of a giant snake just before he was hit with the fire.

Inspector Macnee: (turning pale and looking at Detective Watkins)

I’m going to the canteen, I need a serious rest from all this.

Scene twelve: barn

Grun is now in the local farmer’s barn, asleep. He is still in invisibility mode and so his dreams were lucid and very real; he was, in fact, on the Astral Plane; this is the place where we all go when we die. Grun can now interact with all the entities there, and even change his shape and size. There is a small fairy like creature sitting on a plant pot and looking at Grun with curiosity.

Grun:

Hello, what’s your name?

Fairy:

My name is Deria, what’s yours?

I’m called Grun, but I never liked the name.

Deria;

Why not?

Grun:

It is old fashioned; I like modern names like Ray and Mike.

Deria:

We have some very old names like Haslec and Donefold, but we don’t worry about them.

Grun:

I always got ribbed about it at school. I even got into fights over it.

Deria:

Why?

Grun;

It is because people from Earth, are not very caring or forgiving like little fairy people.

Deria:

I can see you are a person who needs love. Will you come with me to the glade in the meadow? We are going to bless the newly born flower buds

Grun:

I will be honored, Deria.

Grun spends time flying and dancing with the fairies, time doesn’t really exist on the Astral Plane so it can seem like a week or a year, it doesn’t matter. Grun feels reinvigorated; he knows that the time with the fairies is coming to an end but he also knows he will be able to come back anytime he wants. Just before he wakes up, Deria changes her form to human, and she is incredibly beautiful; she holds out her hand to Grun; he takes it and kissed it, then he said, I wish I could stay her forever, but I have to go back. I will never forget this special time with you.

Deria;

Please don’t take yourself so seriously. You are one of God’s children, and you should rest in that thought, blessings on you, farewell.

Grun is now awake and pondering the beautiful dream he has just had. He knows that the world where he has just been is the real world, and that this Earth world is the illusion, simply because everything on earth will someday die.

Grun: (thinking to himself)

How can I contact Kyle now that the police and the press have put my name into the papers?

I know I can get back to the house later for Dad’s next message, but what am I to do now?

After meditating for a few minutes, Grun decides to walk to town in invisible mode. He looks into the local newsagents and sees Anna’s face on the front page of all the newspapers. It didn’t take Grun long to realize that Anna has betrayed him. There is also a picture of the relic which they were to steal. Grun knows the relic key will now be locked up again.

Continued in book five

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