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out of practice of being a teacher. It will take me some time to regain my former patience, please bear with me.”
     
    “I will… if you can tell me why I was selected to be a Dragon Knight,” I said trying to force him to answer.
     
    “If by selected you mean born, I am sure I can explain the process by which a human is brought into this world.” said the dragon.
     
    “That is not what I mean. I mean, why was I picked to be a Dragon Knight.”
     
    “I already explained that you are born to be a Dragon Knight. It’s not something you are selected to be. We dragons haven’t been able to determine why only a few humans are eligible to become Knights but so far we have come to understand it is usually a matter of genes. Children whose parents are talented in magic have a higher likelihood of becoming Dragon Knights. Dragon Knights that have children are almost guaranteed to become Knights, and not just any Knights, the most powerful Knights ever to exist. As a matter of fact the last Dragon Paladin was the son of two Knights.”
     
    “So it’s because of my parents then?”
     
    “Not always, how do you think the first magicians and Knights came to be? They all came from normal families, but as time went on, these cases became exceedingly rare. In the last two hundred years only seven Knights came from normal families.”
     
    “That still doesn’t explain why I am the only one.”
     
    “You might not be the only one… you might just be the only one to have been discovered. You must understand Alexander, after such a long time the Order started to lose hope that new Knights would be found and withdrew all of the selector dragons from the five academies. I stayed here on a whim and found you only by coincidence. But now that you have shown up I believe the Order will reconsider its decision and actively start to search for new Knights again.”
     
    “You can call me Alex if you want and I sure do hope they find new Knights. I wouldn’t want to be the only Knight in the academy.”
     
    “I am sure you aren’t alone Alex. Now you must get some rest. You have had a long day and an even longer one will ensue tomorrow.”
     
    “But I have more questions.”
     
    “Those can wait until tomorrow.”
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    The Start
     
     
     
    I woke up feeling warm and comfortable. I almost expected the caretakers of the orphanage to walk into the room and tell me it was time to wake up and get ready for morning class. Once I realized no one was coming, I slowly got out of my bed remembering what had transpired yesterday and accepting the fact that this was my life now. Living in the Sky Dome, training with dragons and being acclaimed as a Dragon Knight. Not what I had in mind when I had dreamed of entering the Central Academy.
     
    A presence filled the room, much like at the Ceremony Hall when the dragon had woken up.
     
    “It would seem you have awoken young one,” said the voice of the obsidian dragon.
     
    “How did you know I was awake and how come I can hear you yet I don’t see you? You’re pretty hard to miss,” I said, a little surprised.
     
    “When you are a darkness attribute dragon, you can do a lot of things related to shadows. Projecting my voice or even my form in a shadow is relatively easy. You might achieve it someday if you train correctly. Now enough talk. You should eat, your classes start today.”
     
    I stood up from my bed and looked at my new uniform. It was completely black with the insignia of the Dragon Knights, a dragon spreading its wings with two swords slashed across forming an X on its left side and sleeves.
     
    “Since you are the first Dragon Rider in twenty five years the Chairman and Dragon Council thought it would be prudent to give you battle classes before history and the formation of the Dragon Knights or the Order as we call it. He also suggested I lift the restriction on which dragon types you can make your first deal with. A