05 - Demon Storm by Dianna Love

Author:Dianna Love
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Silver Hawk Press LLC
Published: 2014-10-20T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

Evalle shouted, “Move,” at Adrianna so she could blast the witch doctor with a kinetic hit to stop that black majik boiling out of Nadina from taking over Adrianna.

Adrianna calmly ordered, “Do not interfere.”

Had Nadina taken control of Adrianna with the spell?

Isak lifted his weapon to point at Nadina’s head.

The blaster flipped back up against his chest and shoved him against the wall, pinning him in place. Shock whipped across his face. He shouted enough curses to turn the air black all by himself.

Ignoring everyone, Adrianna opened her arms until she held them straight out.

If Evalle shoved her aside with kinetics, she might do more harm with distracting Adrianna, leaving her more vulnerable. “Get out of the way so I can blast that smoke.”

Words flowed from the Sterling witch, soft at first then gaining power until her chanting overrode Nadina’s yelling. Lowering her head as she continued speaking, Adrianna faced the blue-black smoke that took the shape of a dragon.

Not the cute looking ones Disney created that drew millions of moviegoers to theaters.

Evalle doubted this one could be trained.

The dragon shape reared up high, ready to strike.

Adrianna slashed her hand toward the dragon and her chant boomed through the room with the power of a rocket launched.

The dragon lunged forward, fangs out to attack, but the smoke beast slammed to a stop an inch from Adrianna’s face, snarling and struggling to get to her.

Adrianna never flinched, holding the filmy monster at bay with her majik.

Then she closed her fingers into a tight fist.

Nadina started choking and gagging. She fought against the restraints, trying to free her hands. Her face turned red as a thermometer about to burst.

The smoke dragon backed away then slowly turned to face Nadina.

Adrianna relaxed her hand.

Nadina’s eyes flared wide open. White-hot terror circled her irises as the dragon coiled its body once more, prepared to strike a new target.

The witch doctor spat out a phrase that sounded Spanish, but had the word draco in the sequence. Nadina must have ordered it to cease, because the smoke disappeared.

Isak dropped from the wall and his weapon fell loose. He caught it in his arms and flipped it around in one single move, leveled at the back of Nadina’s head.

Evalle yelled, “Don’t!”

His arms shook with the tension of wanting to act and holding himself back. He glared at her, debating on what to do.

“Please don’t.” Evalle stopped short of saying his name. Not a wise idea to ever give a name to someone like Nadina.

He finally growled and jerked it away.

Nadina stared at Adrianna, spitting out short, blunt words in Spanish that had to be some kind of creative cursing. She sucked in a breath after that verbal unloading. “Who the hell are you?”

Adrianna maintained her usual unperturbed manner, tilting her head as one would at a mischievous child. “We don’t have time to bond and share witch stories. Are you ready to do what Evalle needs, or should I use your hair to gain your agreement?”

All the pretty satin-brown skin on Nadina’s face turned ash white.

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