Dragon's Revenge by Natalie Grey

Author:Natalie Grey [Grey, Natalie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-16T16:00:00+00:00

21

Loki stumbled to his knees, mercenaries drawing their weapons, and fury filled Talon’s chest. It was not right, swarming a better fighter, mobbing him and dragging him down. It was the choice of cowards. Loki deserved a better end than this. He was seventeen. Talon’s jaw clenched. Seventeen. Of all of them, Loki should survive this mission. Talon threw himself into the fray with a yell, pulling the mercenaries off and throwing one directly into the wall. He heard the crunch of bone and looked just closely enough to make sure the mercenary wasn’t going to get up.

They weren’t.

Shots were echoing through the ship as he ducked, rolled, and tackled another mercenary, and Talon did not at first notice that there were shots sounding here, closer to home. It was only as he stood, the second mercenary falling limply to the floor, that he became aware of footsteps pounding and Loki’s eyes fixed behind Talon.

Talon turned just quickly enough to see Tera go past him in a blur. Loki was fast; she was faster. She was on the mercenaries a second later, unarmed and unarmored, and Talon felt a stab of fear. She seemed so small next to all of them, defenseless.

That illusion lasted no more than a split-second before her hands and feet lashed out, snapping limbs and crushing chest cavities with the brutal force that Talon associated with brawlers. Her strikes, he noted distantly, were precise and elegant, but there was nothing civilized about this. Tera might be a woman who would take out her target from half a kilometer away with a sniper rifle, and he had no doubt that she preferred to do so; it did not keep her from being effective at close range.

Somewhere, somehow, she had gotten a gun. As he watched, her arm swung to take out one of the mercenaries coming in the airlock, and the recoil sent her stumbling back. The look of distaste on her face was immediate. This gun was a mercenary weapon, Talon realized; he looked over to where two dead mercenaries lay on the stairs, and looked back to note that the handcuffs were not broken at the chain, as he had first supposed, but missing entirely from Tera’s wrists. They had let her out, then. After all this, after everything, they had expected her to be loyal to them—or too stupid to realize she was deceiving them.

Interesting. Talon barely noted the attack coming from behind him, or his own instinctive response. As his fist shot out, catching his attacker across the jaw and snapping his neck sideways, Talon’s eyes met Tera’s and he saw a kinship there. She was just as furious to see lesser fighters mobbing them, and she moved with the same predatory elegance as a Dragon.

She’s one of us. The thought was unmistakable. She belonged here, in the Corps, defending justice. Honor was in every movement. When she took a knee, leveling the gun to fire at those still swarming over the barrier, she chose her position to defend Loki and Talon.

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