Hero by Robert J Crane

Author:Robert J Crane
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Fantasy, General, Contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 1723773328
Publisher: Ostiagard Press
Published: 2018-09-26T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FORTY-THREE

“Well, this trip sure went to shit in a hurry,” I said, taking another step back against the wall. It thumped against my butt, confirming that I was hemmed in on my right by the wall that led to the hallway (probably stone under the plaster and paint), a bed to my left, then Hades, then a window with a hundreds-foot drop below …

And in front of me, cutting off my other avenues of retreat, was General Krall, flanked by ArcheGrey and Yvonne.

Of the three, only Yvonne was looking at me with anything approaching trepidation, but then, she’d seen me in action back in the Cube and probably had some inkling of how things would go if I was cornered. Which I was.

“Let’s … just everybody calm down a little,” Lethe said, taking a step toward General Krall and her minions. “There’s no need for this to get ridiculous.”

“Oh, I dunno,” I said, “like I said before, I kinda figured we were going to get to this a lot sooner.”

“Stop,” Hades said, holding up his hands.

“Make me,” I said, focusing on Krall. I’d have to contend with Arche, too, and her lightning powers, but if I dodged just right, maybe Krall would sponge that up for me, and I could kick that tiny boy-bander into Arche. That’d just leave Yvonne …

Out of these three, at least. I’d still have Hades and my grandmother to contend with, whatever the hell that entailed. They’d certainly proven they weren’t averse to causing me all manner of damage, given that they’d set Rose and Harmon against me, not to mention any number of lesser troubles.

“I will make you,” Krall said, grinning. She shucked out of uniform jacket in an instant, and I got a little unpleasant rumble in my stomach as she stepped toward me, cutting the distance between us to mere feet.

“General …” Hades said, and his tone was not one for trifling.

“I serve you, my liege,” Krall said, not taking her eyes off me, “but this one needs a lesson in humility.”

“Good luck with that,” I said. “I’ve gotten my ass kicked by waaaaaay more impressive specimens than you, General Crawls-like-a-snake.”

“Snakes slither,” Yvonne said, after her eyes flicked skyward for a moment in thought.

“There you go, wrecking my insults, Owens,” I said, looking to my right, where sat a desk and a chair, and that was it. Well, it wasn’t nothing. I set my feet in a shoulder-width stance, my right foot about six inches from the chair’s nearest leg. I had a plan for it, and if Krall took one more step—

She did.

I hooked my foot around the chair leg and heaved it forward as Krall committed herself to coming at me.

Quite a few things happened at once.

Hades shouted, “No!”

Arche summoned up some Thor power, electricity arcing out of a nearby socket and into her hands. The fact that she didn’t think she had enough on her without drawing more set off a couple alarm bells in my brain. The

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