Free Tianna Xander by The Earth Dragon

dragon is much like the Earth dragon. He reveres life. He carved this so someone could save him someday. He gave his life to protect something. What, I don’t know. The writing on the cave wall only speaks of saving the last of something. We must free him to find out what it is.” He told her the words they all must chant and left her and Tansy to call their sisters.
     
    It didn’t take nearly as long to get her sisters on the phone as May expected. Apparently, word got around that there was some major find and they had all stayed by the phones at Drake’s home. They didn’t even need a conference call. Each sister had an extension. May turned her phone to the speaker and, with Damek’s help, taught them what to chant.
    With Tony and Tansy on opposite sides of the sphere and she and Damek taking an opposite side as well, she began the chant before leaving her sisters to it while she concentrated on helping the water dragon grow stronger. Heat surrounded them as Tansy and her mate released their fire. May concentrated on finding the life force within the sphere and magnified it while Damek used his power of Earth to crack the granite inside.
    As the granite cracked, the outer layer of ice gave way. Water moved up from the floor where it began to puddle and entered the crack. May forced her power into the water as it seeped through the cracks in the stone and ice. The longer Tony and Tansy heated it, the more cracks marred the surface, looking like spider webs. Damek did similar damage to the inner layer of stone.
    The water dragon, or whatever was inside the circle of stone continued to suck the water from the melted ice through the cracks until, with a burst of light, the stone and ice fell from around the being imprisoned inside.
    The dragon was large, it huddled, its wings wrapped around itself as it clutched something to its chest. Wrinkled and gray, it continued to draw water from the melting ice.
    “Keep heating the ice. He needs water,” Damek said as he wiped the sweat from his brow. “You’ll know when to quit. He’ll start recuperating quicker as he utilizes the water in the ice on his own.” Damek bent to look into the dragon’s face. “The reason they encased him in stone was to keep him from using the ice to strengthen himself. The reason for the ice was to keep anyone else from finding him.” He shook his head. “I can’t imagine the torment he would have been in if he hadn’t put himself to sleep.”
    May couldn’t imagine it either. Having the ice surrounding him, knowing that water was so close, yet still inaccessible, could have driven him mad.
    “What’s that he’s holding?” May asked as Tansy and Tony fell back, looking exhausted.
    Damek leaned closer. “It’s a plant of some kind.”
    The gray of the water dragon slowly turned to blue as he drew water from the ice on the walls. The cave drew warmer as the ice disappeared. The dragon grew stronger while her sisters kept chanting over the phone.
    Slowly, the dragon unfurled its wings and stretched. It looked around, the slits in its blue eyes narrowing on the men for a few moments before the dragon shimmered and shifted shape into that of a blond man of similar height and size as Damek.
    “Damek,” he dipped his head. “ Et tu de haru?”
    “You know him?” May whispered. “What did he say?”
    “He asked if I have been well.”
    “ Es jeck du sur. Yes, I am well, ” Damek replied as he stepped forward, took the man by the shoulders and stared deep into his eyes. “I have transferred my knowledge of this language to you. I will give you more knowledge once you recover more.” He still stared into the man’s eyes. “Do you understand?” At the other man’s nod, Damek continued, “Welcome back to the living, my brother.” Damek held out his hand, indicating the plant cradled in the other man’s arms. “Dare I hope you have saved this for me?”
    “Yes, brother.” The man nodded. “It is marsuka . You wished me to