Blood and Royalty by M. R. Mathias

Author:M. R. Mathias [Mathias, M. R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Michael Robb Mathias Jr.
Published: 2014-12-20T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

Marcherion and Blaze, so sore from their half-healed injuries that they could barely stand the pain, appeared over Gull’s Reach. The men on the tower nearest them suddenly cheered. The other men on the walls followed when they saw.

It isn’t here, Marcherion voiced to the other Dragoneers.

He gave the men a wave of encouragement, surprised that so many had stayed, even after they’d been told to flee to Freeman’s Reach.

The idea that this whole population and all the folks on the Mainland were the descendants of the survivors of a shipwreck was pretty incredible. What had him worried as he cast the teleportation spell that would take him to Serpent’s Isle, was the sword.

The dragon tear mounted on the medallion he wore was tied to the legendary blade’s destiny. He knew this because both items were with the one man’s skeleton he and Brendly Tuck had found in that cave so long ago.

He’d cut his palms and his scalp wide open while killing a wyvern with Errion Spightre. As incredible as that was, he knew its magic wasn’t meant for him. Only Zahrellion, Amelia and Jericho shared the blood line. Since Zahrellion hadn’t known her parents, there could be others out there, but it would be Jericho’s blade. Jericho would be a great king. March had been able to tell from the young man’s gait; the way he made his decisions, the way he minded his tongue, and spoke commandingly. Then he realized something else about that sword, his medallion, and dragon tears in general, but it would have to wait, for even as he heard Rikky calling to him through the ethereal, he saw the Sarsaraxus standing there glaring at him from where it stood on the beach. Its toes were in the surf and crackling bright blue, but it wasn’t in pain or dying from the seawater’s touch.

March remembered seeing the Sarax as they hit the sea and crackled over with the same sort of blue energy he was seeing now, but it killed them. To confirm this assessment even further, the thing stepped knee-deep as it conjured some alien spell and threw its arms toward him.

I’ve found Jenka. Rikky’s voice was panicked. March, Zah, Aikira, I need you now! The beast is on Serpent’s Isle, like Jenka guessed, but Jade’s underbelly is opened, and Jenka’s legs are shredded.

Part of March wanted to go help Rikky, for he saw them now, in the distance. Silva was floating beside a barely visible mass of green scales, with Jade’s head draped across the silver wyrm’s back as if to keep it afloat. The part of March that knew he could do little to help Rikky took over then. He was the least proficient at healing anything, even himself, of them all. The anger that this thing had apparently killed Jenka, and maybe even Jade, caused him to vomit forth a hot, cherry blast of dour at it.

March’s anger only grew as Blaze twitched his wing and dropped a few dozen feet so that the Sarsaraxus’s blast went right over them.

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