Fairdeal (Vein'Astra Saga Book 1) by J.R. Mollick

Author:J.R. Mollick [Mollick, J.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-08-02T00:00:00+00:00

ACT 8

CROSSROADS

It didn’t look like a ship. I slid my goggles on to dampen the sun. The spot was smaller than a ship. A person with their arms out?

We were flying closer to it.

“What is that smell?” Sol’Astra whispered. She seemed confused.

I sniffed. It smelled of fragrance? A soothing smell of sweetness.

It was getting closer.

It had long arms? Reaching to the sides?

Wings.

A person with wings?

“Motendrea.” The word stuck in my mind. The slave boats, the cult.

Death.

“LUCY,” I shouted down. My voice carried to her and cracked.

Specks of light headed quickly toward the spot. It was getting bigger. The wings were growing larger, blocking part of the sun.

Arms sharped to the edge, where claws emerged from the mass of scaled tendrils curling around. I spun the wheel, and the ship slowly turned.

“LUCY! GET UP HERE NOW!” I looked down over the banisters.

She looked up, tears in her eyes again. She wiped them away, now seeing what I was seeing ahead, and started to run up. The familiar low growl. The creature was more prominent than the mountains and gaining.

Not since the enslaved ship, that I have seen those claws.

The spiked mass was more enormous than the ship. As the spot became more solid, I could see arms and legs hanging. The wings were sharper.

The sun was losing its battle against Mote. Rays from the sides fought around it.

Mote was heading towards us.

Lucy grabbed the wheel, spinning it to the side. I could feel the heat blasting towards us as he got closer. The wings beat down, tilting the ship. He turned, coming level with the ship. The enormous face tilted down ahead of its body.

It was about to overtake us, but the head turned slowly around. I could throw something at it.

The face was next to us. Looking. Examining.

I walked closer to the edge. The creature's eye was enormous, like a small pond moving, gazing at us. A steel blue iris, examining the ship, shifting from front of the ship then back, then to me. The scales were dark purple, almost black, with spots of black. The wings were black, with dark silver spikes. He was staring at us.

A giant blue eye, shimmering in the sunlight.

The wings flapped once, and the ship shuddered. The eye focused, staring at me. Fangs peeked out the sides of his mouth, and a black smoke erupted from his nose.

“Do it! DO IT NOW! END THIS,” Sol’Astra shouted.

I looked to the bodies, Lucy, then to the Dragon.

Pulling out Diedra’s blade, I looked at Lucy. “Get out of here. I’m going to—” Motendrea flapped his wings again. The ship rumbled again. Lucy turned the ship; it slowly turned in the air again.

We can’t outrun him. I thought I would have more time.

“AHHhhh, come and get me!” I pointed at him with Diedra’s sword. I felt exhausted. I didn’t know how much I had left, or if I could fight. But I had to save the ship.

He turned, and as he banked one of the wings reached into the sky, the other splitting the ocean.

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