Mad Panther by Donna McDonald

Author:Donna McDonald [McDonald, Donna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-18T05:00:00+00:00

Inside the vacant training, Axel carefully laid the now gasping boy on the mat.

“Artifact, what’s happening to him?” Sugar asked.

Communication blocked. Protector attempts repair.

“Is Lake dying again?” Sugar demanded.

Negative. Pain great. Fix required.

“Tell the Protector blade not to harm us when it surfaces.”

Protector knows.

“Why am I not reassured by that?”

Humans doubt. Protector not human.

Sugar grunted. “Yeah… well… sarcasm is human too, and you do that as much as I do.”

Lake’s body thrashed and rolled. He clutched his throat, unable to speak.

“Come on. Get it done. Why is it taking so long?” Sugar complained.

Axel reached across the boy’s body and lifted Sugar’s chin to direct her gaze to his. “Lake Allen Wright is brave—just as you were when we met. He will learn to deal with his blade just as you did yours.”

Sugar nodded against Axel’s fingers. “Great. Now you decide to be calm. Guess that’s a good thing because I’m completely freaking out here.”

She closed her eyes, took a breath, and rose reluctantly to her feet.

“Doing this is the only way I know how to help him, but if the artifact hurts this dress, there’s going to be serious hell to pay.”

Axel grunted at her teasing and watched with concern as Sugar touched the trident point hidden deep between her breasts. He winced as he watched her conversion. In all the time they’d been together, he’d only watched the process in reverse. It was apparent how painful it was by the agony showing on Sugar’s face. Is this what his mother said he had to live with? Watching a kind of suffering he could do nothing in his power to change?

Sugar looked down at Lake and gasped as the pain of the change overwhelmed her. She struggled to stay herself long enough to explain. “It always hurts, but the pain fades quickly. Let it happen, Lake. The only choice is to go through it. There is no denying the change.”

Her throat rose into the air as her mind took on more significant proportions. When the conversion was done, she was covered in gold.

Her eyes were direct, clear, and pain-free when she finally looked back down. “Greetings, Protector. I await your presence.”

Lake gritted his teeth and arched his throat almost involuntarily. Sugar watched as a blue veil of energy shot from his chest and covered Lake in blade battle armor. I wonder if my armor was ever blue like Lake’s.

Negative, the artifact inside her said, answering her thoughts. Protector Sugar chose gold.

But the choice explained nothing about why Rodu’s blade energy was black and hers was golden. She could see Lake the human fading more and more as the confident blue Protector blade took over his body.

Her ballsy lover reached out a hand to help the new Protector stand up. Sugar watched the entity controlling Lake accept the help cautiously while searching Axel’s face.

“Greetings. You are Axel of Rodu, Lyran Guardian of Protector Sugar.”

“Yes. Greetings,” Axel responded.

Then the new Protector turned to her. “Greetings, Protector Sugar. It has been a long time.

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