Chaos & Christmas by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little Fish Publishing
Published: 2019-12-14T22:00:00+00:00

7

Ghost Cassie pulls me toward the door of the mausoleum, and we wander outside, where the wind has stopped. It’s oddly still, and a thick mist covers everything. I swipe my hand left and right, but it won’t disperse. Cassie’s hand is no longer on my arm and I whirl, looking for her.

“Cassie?” I call. “Cassie, where are you?”

I spot movement in the mist, a shadow that catches my eye. I head toward it, tripping over a broken tombstone that catches my toe. I go down hard, my own fist curling into my belly. I gasp for air, fighting the urge to vomit. Something looms over me and I shift instinctively, my teeth bared in a snarl as I back away.

It’s not Cassie; it’s Edie.

She’s in her dragon form, but it’s like nothing I’ve ever seen before. Her wings have always shifted color with her moods and emotions. Right now they are an opalescent black, her head is bowed low, her dragon eyes heavily-lidded. She breathes onto me, a little warmth spreading across my body as I shift back into human form.

“Edie,” I say, reaching for her. But she pulls away, pointing to the west. I follow her gaze to where a faint glow is burning away the mist.

“You want me to go there?” I ask, and Edie nods, her eyes still downcast. I take a step, then turn back to her, my feet oddly heavy.

Fear—a feeling I thought I lost long ago—sits in my stomach.

“What will I see?” I ask, my voice wavering.

But Edie doesn’t answer, only points again, extending one talon toward the eerie glow. Something about that light doesn’t sit well with me. I’ve faced down monster hordes and torn throats out of satyrs, but that light makes my hackles rise.

I thread my way through the graveyard, climbing over toppled stones and open holes that rattle me even further. Those holes don’t look like they were dug…it looks like something tunneled up out from the earth. As I get closer to the light, a warmth starts to spread, but it’s not comforting.

It burns, like vengeance.

And that’s what it is, I realize, as I get close enough to see the source. It’s Zeus. Mr. Zee, who should be dead, sitting on a throne of broken tombstones.

He’s raging, gnashing his teeth and sending lightning bolts out to torture those who lay at his feet; Edie, Val, Mavis, and a handful of other students from Mount Olympus Academy that were outed as Moggies. Mr. Zee had always hated the mixed bloods; that is, kids whose parents came from two different magical types.

But this isn’t right. Traitors or not, Edie and the others are helpless under Mr. Zee’s lightning bolts, and he’s not killing them. He gives them enough of a jolt to send them jerking, foaming at the mouth, their clothes sparking with flame. Then he stops, waits for them to recover, only to do it again.

I look away, back to dragon Edie, who stands next to me.

“This can’t be right,” I tell her.

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