Cursed Relic by Shawn Knightley

Author:Shawn Knightley [Knightley, Shawn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-15T22:00:00+00:00

8

Edmund swung the blade down hard. But not at me. He severed the locksin’s magic tying me down and shattered the binds around both my wrists and ankles. When I sat up, I wasn’t entirely sure if I would be permitted to actually stand. I hadn’t seen Edmund in a while. He was never particularly kind to me. And regardless of how much he had aged over the last two centuries, I could still see the anger in his eyes for what I did all those years ago.

In a miraculous act that I never expected, he extended a hand to me. I reluctantly took it, not entirely keen on the idea of our skin touching but willing to accept the small act of kindness. Once I was standing I refused to meet his eyes.

“Where are you hurt?” he asked me in a thick British accent. All the Matthews had accents. They could drop them when they wished to become accustomed to who they were speaking to. I never gained such a skill. My Scottish roots always lingered when I spoke no matter how hard I tried to shake them away.

He eyed the blood soaking my clothes as he let go of my hand.

“I already healed,” I answered him. “I just haven’t changed clothes.”

“You didn’t change in three days?” he asked. Clearly, he found the thought repulsive.

‘They don’t provide fresh clothes in captivity.’

I lowered my head as I usually did to him and other high ranking vixra. “Has it been that long?” I asked.

Before Edmund could answer me we were interrupted by the sound of my captor screaming at the top of his lungs. Both the mad scientist and the blonde vampire had come through the vixra tunnel with me.

‘How much of the building did you destroy, Edmund?’

By the looks of it, the entire floor had been ripped open and brought through time and space to the field where we stood. Along with pipes spurting out water, drywall laying in the nearby mud, and the test tubes carrying my gun, bullets, and my magic swirling around in a glass container.

The girl had her large fangs deep inside the mad scientist’s neck. I didn’t move to rescue him. In fact, I was tempted to actually enjoy it. I sure wasn’t going to stop her from killing him. But Edmund clearly had other ideas in mind. He lifted his hand and let his magic come barreling out, knocking the vampire backward with a force so strong that she looked like she had been struck by lightning. She shook uncontrollably after crashing back into the grass then went tense like countless volts of electricity were passing through her body and paralyzing her.

“Don’t do that again,” Edmund said to her. From the looks of it, she had been knocked completely unconscious. But her emotions were still potent. I knew she could hear every word he was saying.

The magic swirled under her body and lifted her in the air. Edmund pulled his arm inward and she came floating over where we stood, completely motionless but alive.

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