Book of Seth: The North: A Fallen Chronicles Book by O'Brien Dan

Author:O'Brien, Dan [O'Brien, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2015-03-02T16:00:00+00:00

I SAW THE FADING GLOW of the blue light and knew that they were on their way; yet, their flight panged me with guilt. I had been charged with their protection and the success of the mission. It seemed a shirking of duties to cut them loose under the watchful eye of my brother.

I held my blade out in front of me. Right hand over left, the tip of the blade extended out slightly farther than the hilt. I scanned the edges of the darkness. The roaming eyes of the shadow beasts seemed to be toying with me. I removed my left hand from the blade and grasped blindly along my side to the utility belt just beneath the first fold of my outer wrapping.

The spherical object was cold even beneath the bandages. Its metallic release seemed to be iced over; I placed my thumb over it anyways.

The eyes had stopped again, fixing me with a distant and haunting stare that was no doubt natural to the beast. It felt unearthly to me. I rolled the release to the right until it clicked four times, and then depressed the flat protuberance; the button struggled against the ice.

I tossed it at the shadow eyes watching me so intently.

The sphere fell into the pile of snow at their feet.

Their fear was amplified by the winds when the sphere exploded into blinding amber light that flooded the shadowed mountainside.

I moved forward without hesitation. My muscles surged with much-needed adrenaline in the cold. Rolling my body forward, the trail of the blade was invisible behind my spin. The edge of the blade connected with its neck. Blood gushed. As the head rolled to the ground, it was stained emerald like its tongue. The body remained for a moment before the muscles lost control and fell beside the lifeless head.

Turning to the two other creatures, the amber light faded.

Their wicked tongues flicked out, tasting the frozen air.

They charged forward, their footfalls awkward in the hard-packed snow. The green essence of the first beast oozed from my blade; the warmth of my blade boiled it upon the steel. I tilted my head and peeled a second blade from the sword––the stained blade in my right and the unsoiled one in my left––and met their charge.

Two blades sung through the frigid air. I swung the first and connected with muscular flank and then spun, driving the point of the unsoiled blade into the thick mass of its skull. The force of the blow splintered bone and emerald fluids spurted from its eyes. It cried out and flopped to the side, kicking and pawing at itself while the second one crashed one of its misshapen claws into my right side, sending me sprawling against the rocky edge of the mountain. The wrap upon my face slid down and exposed some of my face to the frozen gales.

I pushed myself with my left arm––the blade dug deep into the snow. I felt the broken ribs and bruised flesh that would ache and burn long after the battle.

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