Elemental Rivalry by Maddy Edwards

Author:Maddy Edwards [Edwards, Maddy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy
Amazon: B01JNNUFAE
Goodreads: 31346026
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-08-02T05:00:00+00:00

After I was pulled from the fight, everything happened quickly. Other professors arrived to help, and students were pushed further back. As soon as I could stand, I sprang to my feet. Fury filling me once again. I stared at my sister’s friends, Rake and Trafton standing next to each other, completing my task. Then I turned and walked away, breathless with rage.

They didn’t need or want me to do anything. The second they’d had the chance, they had shoved me out of the way. How was I supposed to get any better at protecting Public if no one ever let me try? News flash, Featherton wouldn’t exist anymore if I hadn’t saved it!

Eighellie reached out to me, but I just shook my head. Keegan was there now too, and he fell into step beside us. Ostelle was nowhere to be seen. All the other students, in fact, except the ones who were seriously injured, were gone.

“Party go well?” Keegan asked as we walked. I was speed walking back to Astra, fury making my temples pound.

Eighellie glanced nervously at me and then said to Keegan, “We didn’t have much time at the actual party. The White Light Society does have good food, though.”

I shook my head, still angry.

“They have good food,” I muttered. “Sure they do, and who cares? How could Rake do that?”

“Do what?” Eighellie asked. “Fight demons on campus like the rest of us wanted to?”

“I was going to fight them,” I burst out.

The paths were dark and empty. There were no students near us, and hardly any around at all except a cluster of vampires I could see floating in the distance. They gave me a curious look.

“You can’t fight them alone,” said Eighellie gently. “Essence doesn’t make you invincible. In fact, it might be the opposite.”

“What do you mean the opposite?” I said.

“I mean that you think you can do more than you can, and then you get in trouble,” she said.

I turned on her, angry, and at the same time feeling bad that I was angry. “OH?”

“Yeah,” she said. “You can’t fight twenty demons, Ricky.”

“I’m going to have to agree with her,” said Keegan. “Best to have help. It’s their campus too. Keep it to ten at a time and work your way up from there.”

I lapsed into an uneasy silence. I had a suspicion that my friends were right, but that didn’t mean I had to like it.

“I’m going to bed,” I said. “In the morning I want to find out what that thing was.”

“What thing?” Eighellie asked.

“The thing in the middle of the demons,” I said.

I didn’t notice Eighellie’s unease, or the implication that she hadn’t seen what I had seen. I was too busy thinking about Rake.

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