A Damsel and a Demigod: The Guild Codex: Spellbound by Marie Annette

Author:Marie, Annette
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-988153-34-6
Publisher: Dark Owl Fantasy Inc.
Published: 2020-03-08T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

I could hear my name. The voice called for me over and over.

I could feel a touch on my face. Warm hands urgently brushed my hair, my cheeks, my jaw.

My mind snapped back to awareness, and I had a second to panic about my paralyzed body and fogged vision before the magic broke. I pitched forward, crashed into a body, and took us both down.

Izzah wheezed as I landed on her, but she managed a strangled, “Kai!” and threw her arms around my neck. My hands found the cold grass and I pushed up, lifting her too. I sat back and she released me, scanning my face with tears standing in her eyes.

“You’re alive!” she said weakly. “I thought you—I’d woken up so I figured you would too, but I wasn’t sure and—and—”

She broke off, gulping. I skimmed her from head to toe, relieved to see no sign of dusty stone texture on her rich russet skin or raven hair. Stretching my hands out, I checked that I’d also lost all resemblance to a statue.

My watch glowed with blue numbers. 2:08 a.m.

“No!” I said hoarsely. “We were frozen for almost two hours?”

Izzah sucked in a horrified breath. “We missed it. The fire nexus—we already missed it!”

Scrambling to my feet, I scoured the park. The earth nexus was dull and mundane, the artifact gone from its top, and there was no sign of Icarus. I was sure I’d hit him with my lightning, but it either hadn’t knocked him out or he’d recovered and fled.

My hand flew to my earpiece and I switched it on. “Aaron?”

A quiet beep, then Aaron’s voice erupted. “Where the hell have you been?”

“I was trapped in a spell,” I answered tersely. “Where are—”

“Wait,” Aaron interrupted. “Were you turned to stone?”

Shock cut through my urgency. “Yes—how did you know?”

Izzah watched anxiously as I listened to Aaron’s reply.

“Because I’m standing beside six mage statues,” he growled. “When you stopped answering, we didn’t know if you were occupied, injured, or dead—but since you didn’t bother to tell us where you were going, Ezra and I went ahead to the fire nexus.”

“You did?” By the mention of statues, I was guessing they’d had no more luck than me in defeating Icarus. “Where’s the nexus?”

“Turns out the only good one is at the Pandora Knights guild. I know half the guys here, so I alerted them and we staked out the nexus.”

“And Icarus came.”

“Damn right he did. Turned half the mages to stone in twenty seconds, so I called the retreat. I didn’t know if he was killing them or what.” He sighed in relief. “But if you’ve recovered, then we know it’ll wear off.”

“In about two hours.” I looked at Izzah. “The air nexus is the final one, isn’t it?”

“And our last chance to stop him,” she confirmed anxiously. “If we don’t, and the Andromedis shower happens as predicted, he’ll unlock the Andromeda Spell and gain some form of invincibility.”

“Where is the best air nexus?”

She hesitated. “Some sorcerers say the Atkinson Lighthouse in West Vancouver.

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