Accursed by Michael James Ploof

Author:Michael James Ploof
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Traveling Bard Publishing
Published: 2020-04-02T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

In the village there were bodies everywhere from both sides. A wyvern had crashed into one of the burning huts, and while thrashing its death throes, spewed flames into the sky.

A wyvern flew overhead, and Min groaned, for Mazer rode on its back. There was no way he could have reversed his gravity, and she assumed the only thing keeping him from floating into the heavens was contact with his mount. He turned and glided toward her, and she rushed to find a weapon. Her sword was sticking out of the chest of the man who she’d fought first.

Mazer bore down on her as she raced toward the weapon. The wyvern opened its maw and shot white-hot flames. Min grabbed the sword, Burst over the fire, and spread her arms and legs wide, ignoring the pain. The shrapnel had punched dozens of holes in the suit, but Min was still able to glide. After the wyvern passed under her, she flew after it. All she had to do was touch the beast, and it too would be rejected by the earth and launched into the heavens.

She had almost reached the beast’s tail when it spun and twisted to face her. It unleashed a plume of fire she barely dodged, then flew away faster than she could follow. Impotent with anger, she realized she didn’t have the strength to follow.

An eagle shot out of the smoke toward the wyvern, and on its back was Kat. The eagle collided with Mazer’s mount, and its wicked talons tore the wyvern’s throat open. Flames exploded through the wound, and the wyvern lurched, regained control, then lurched again. Its lifeblood watered the ground, and it finally went limp and crashed into a burning building.

“Finish it!” Kat called as she flew past.

She limped to the burning building. A Seadryk warrior charged her, but she Burst against his attack, shattering his sword, and put hers through his eye. She moved to the other side of the building. The wyvern lay in the dirt with its tail in the fire. Min searched for Mazer and found him beside his wyvern with one leg pinned beneath it.

He was still alive, but barely, by the look of it. Her wounds were beginning to burn painfully, and she knew she was losing blood. With the last of her strength, she raised her sword and uttered, “This is for my mother.”

Mazer suddenly kicked away from the wyvern, pulling his leg free, and slapped an iron shackle around Min’s ankle. He shot into the sky, taking Min with him. Blood rushed to her head as she rose upside down.

“What a glorious ending!” Mazer said with maniacal laughter. “Come, Varresh, let us battle in the heavens for eternity for the pleasure of the gods!”

Min dangled from the shackle as they floated out over the water. She still had her sword. Gathering what little energy she had left, she Burst straight up and plunged the sword into his heart, and still he grinned at her.

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