Heroes (The Young Neos Book 5) by Lucas Flint

Author:Lucas Flint [Flint, Lucas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Secret Identity Books
Published: 2017-07-14T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

The sudden explosion of fire and glass above startled Pantalone and Volto, causing the Venetians to look up at it in surprise. But Talon, seeing her chance, rushed toward Pantalone and slashed at him with her claws. Because Pantalone was distracted by the explosion, he didn’t have time to defend himself and Talon’s claws ripped through his chest. Pantalone fell over with a cry, but Talon did not stop; she just ran over him, her hands over her head now as she fled. She fully expected Volto to start shooting at her, but when she looked over her shoulder, she saw that Volto was kneeling over Pantalone, apparently checking to make sure that he was okay.

This would have been the perfect opportunity for Talon to take down Volto, too, but she was still too injured to risk a direct confrontation with Volto. Besides, Volto still had his gun, with which he could shoot her. What Talon needed more than anything at the moment was to find a place safe to hide. Actually, she really needed to find one of the others; she’d even have been happy to see White at this point, because there was no way she could keep running forever.

Talon looked up at the burning warehouse. Massive flames ate through the metal roof, shooting out of the windows like lightning bolts. Talon wondered where the explosion had come from. Did Bolt cause it? Or was it Electrica’s fault? Or maybe neither were responsible. Perhaps it was a gas leak or something like that.

Just as Talon thought that, however, she heard a loud scream above her, getting closer and closer every second. She looked up, but at first did not see anything in the dark sky or amid the smoke rising ever higher from the burning warehouse. But then she saw something—no, someone—falling toward her, though she had difficulty identifying them at first due to the low light conditions.

But then, from the light of the flames, Talon saw a flash of green and immediately knew that it was Stinger. Why he was falling, she did not know; he must have been blown off the roof when the warehouse exploded. Regardless, he was coming straight toward her, but there was no way that she would be able to catch him, yet if he hit the concrete, he would get splattered against the pavement. She wondered why he wasn’t using his wings to stop or at least slow his descent, but she had no time to think about that, because Stinger was going to hit the ground any second now and he would die.

But then there was a flash of blue and white and Stinger was gone. Talon blinked several times, wondering where Stinger had gone, before she heard a familiar voice above her shout, “Talon!”

Looking up, Talon saw White Lightning floating down toward her. In his arms was a very shaken-looking Stinger, who was clinging to White as tightly as a baby clung to its mother. White, on the

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