Mage Hunter (Lost Tales of Power Book 8) by Vincent Trigili

Author:Vincent Trigili
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Vydorian Realms Publishing
Published: 2017-05-13T06:00:00+00:00

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05-06-0067 - STONES

“Blue Wing, prepare for jump. We’re going in hot,” came the voice of Blue Leader over the comm.

I quickly locked my fighter’s controls to those of the wing leader, then turned back to look at my brother and gunner. “Ready, Dave?”

He smiled and gave me a thumbs-up.

I pulled up the tactical readout of the jump zone. A trading fleet had been ambushed by a pirate gang and had placed a call for help. The combined forces of the Battle Wizards and the Aleeryon Navy were beating the pirates farther back every day, but our space was too big and too sparsely populated to remain completely free from pirates.

“Looks like a pretty large trade fleet; not their usual target,” I commented.

“The pirate fleet doesn’t look big enough to take them on,” he noted.

“And yet they’re winning somehow.”

The comm crackled to life. “Jump in three … two … one … ”

The azure of jump space wrapped around us like a warm blanket. Mundanes often commented about how disconcerting they found jump travel, but for a magus it was like going home to your grandmother’s cooking.

As we cleared jump space, my board lit up with alarms. “She wasn’t kidding about it being hot!”

Inertia pulled at my body as I forced the fighter into a tight spiral in an effort to break the numerous target locks on us.

“Blue Six, their command ship has been boarded. Assist and be careful,” said our wing leader. Her voice was soft and she seemed to care about her wing; she wasn’t at all the typical harsh, business-like wing commander with whom I was used to serving.

“Roger, Command, we’re going in.” I reoriented the fighter so that their command ship was down and dove towards it.

“Stones, we’ve got a tail,” called my brother.

I pulled hard to the side and then back again, executing a maneuver known as ‘Scissors’ which was designed to make an enemy overshoot your flight path.

“It’s not working,” said Dave.

“Blue Three, are you out there? We could use some cover fire,” I called on the comm.

“I’ve got you,” he replied.

I pulled out of the Scissors, banking hard towards Blue Three. The enemy fighter followed but hadn’t managed to get a lock. Blue Three cut across our tail with guns blazing.

“Yeehaw!” he cried out as the fighter behind us exploded silently.

Dave groaned behind me.

I smiled. “Thanks, Blue Three!” I replied and brought us back on course towards the command ship. “Looks like that cargo bay is open.”

“The pirates probably blasted their way in there,” responded Dave.

As we neared the spacecraft, I set the autopilot to take over. It would find a place to attach itself to the hull and wait for us.

“Autopilot engaged. The Hammer Brothers are going in,” I said over the comm. Dave and I drew our wands and teleported over to the cargo bay.

The cargo bay was open to space, exposing it to hard vacuum. That meant the three people guarding the airlock couldn’t hear us approach.

“They have their backs to the

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