Audiobook adventures - Dragon Shield

Vicar’s Conquest: Chapter One

Saturion Deshane sat at his father’s desk in the corner of their two-room hut and held a curled, brown envelope in trembling hands. On the back it bore the sigil of the Court Mages of the Democracy of Arcania, two dragon wings split by a wooden wand like the spine of a dragon. It was night. His father slept uncom...

Vicar’s Conquest: Chapter Two

Saturion heard the whizz of the arrows fly. Instinctively, he took a step backwards and fell through the magical barrier between the courtyard and the Tower. He saw the arrows collide harmlessly into the other side of the magical barrier before clattering to the ground. The guards jumped from their places and ran to...

Vicar’s Conquest: Chapter Three

A pie splatted in the face of a woman a few feet from Saturion. She wiped the cream from her eyes, smiled, and tried— but failed— to duck the next one. “That’s the most beautiful sound in the world, ain’t it?” said the intake jester hanging upside down from a trapeze in front of him several feet in t...

Vicar’s Conquest: Chapter Four

General Vicar hopped out of Andros’s wagon and touched the tip of his bare blade to the marble inner Sylvania wall. Like a pebble dropped in a river, ripples of light coursed out in every direction from the point until the wall dissolved, leaving behind little more than glowing embers. Revealed in its place was a ...

Vicar’s Conquest: Chapter Five

“You’re awake,” Portia said as Citrine slowly rose, holding her head in her hand. “Where are we?” “We’re in the Jet Fortress,” she said. “General Vicar brought us here.” Citrine’s eyes became saucer-sized as she tried to jump up from the bed. “We have to get out of here.” “Shh...

Vicar’s Conquest: Chapter Six

Citrine began each day on the road with Vicar’s company laying in the dark in her unadorned tent wrapped in a bedroll too small for her, sinking slightly into the muddy ground, exhausted from the tossing and turning of the night before. Each day, a helmeted man would come to get her. She would dress quietly, the m...

Vicar’s Conquest: Chapter Seven

The bells on Saturion’s jester cap jingled as he tapped his foot nervously. A thick fog had floated in from the north turning the entire world mean and gray. The early morning would have been calm except for the screams crashing out of the infirmary Saturion sat against. He closed his eyes and leaned his head aga...

Vicar’s Conquest: Chapter Eight

In the sky, the comet cracked open and living fire took a breath. The first elemental dragon born in four hundred years roared. The roar sent shockwaves through Saturion’s body. He wanted to kill. To murder. To slay Vicar and Volos, to feel their skin as he stripped it from their bones. Volos clawed at his chee...

Vicar’s Conquest: Chapter Nine

A dragon hatched from a comet and collapsed on Vicar but he was able to convince the spirit of the orange Dragon Shield that he was worthy enough to wield it. The shield bonded with him and gave him the power to push the fire dragon back until he could absorb it into the shield itself. Vicar, Volos, and Saturion then...

Vicar’s Conquest: Chapter Ten

War is upon Arcania. Saturion Deshane tried tracking the Gaialists who kidnapped Citrine but was captured by Gaialists himself. Back in Sylvania, the governor of the white and leader of the Gaialists, Tarantos, checked on the progress of his Gaialist followers in an ancient temple underneath the Castle of the Bow. ...

Vicar’s Conquest: Bonus Chapter

BONUS! Dragon Shield Kingdoms episode: The Fisher Guardian. Narrated by Dave Jackson. Written by Ian Spiegel-Blum...