Marvel's Midnight Suns: Infernal Rising by S.D. Perry

Author:S.D. Perry [Perry, S.D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: &#160
Publisher: Titan
Published: 2022-11-29T08:00:00+00:00

MAGIK’S portal opened onto a dark alley between two of the houses, next to a clump of garbage and recycling bins. To their right was a line of tall, browning hedges. Nico spoke protection for the Suns as they stepped out, careful to glamour the spell’s power draw. She didn’t call for the Staff of One—it was loud and proud, and right now they needed sneaky.

Spell accomplished and holding—it would deflect demonic energy, as well as hide them from notice—Nico looked around, searching for the house that was collecting soul energy. She could feel darkness swirling in the air, like the very faintest of breezes…

“It’s one of those,” Blade whispered, and nodded to the houses behind the hedge. The one on the left was a two-story, pale-yellow cracker box facing the tree-lined street. It was slightly bigger than its neighbor, a tan ranch-style home on a heavily landscaped lot.

Nico observed for herself. The energies she sensed seemed to be going to the larger house, but it was hard to say. The entire block was humming with shifting power.

“I’ll take a closer look,” Blade whispered. “Wait here.”

He flashed away, silently. A dog barked a block over, a car started up, someone was taking out the trash. It was weird to be in a regular neighborhood after so long at the Abbey, surrounded by normal people doing normal people things. The air was cool but unpleasant, heavy with darkness; the feel was mildly oppressive, like the mugginess before a thunderstorm.

The smell doesn’t help. The garbage cans weren’t new, and the summer had been hot.

Blade flashed back to them. “It’s the yellow one. Windows are all blocked, there’s one person downstairs. I can’t get anything except that his heart is beating, but there are a lot of machines running inside.”

Nico frowned. The steady flow of psychic energy seemed to be stuttering, like something had interrupted it.

“I think they might be moving,” Nico said. “Something’s different, the draw is losing coherence.”

“Best time to kick in the door, then,” Blade said. “A third of the Triumvirate is better than none, and we can get one of those shields for Banner to look at. I’m going to grab whoever’s in there and then we’ll reassess. Robbie, Magik, come in through the front when you hear us. Nico and I will go in through the back. Let’s be cool—there are a lot of civilians around and we already know this guy’s a bomb-maker.”

Nico nodded along with the rest of them, maintaining their protection as they cut through the hedge. She was glad for all the practice Caretaker and Agatha had pushed, teaching her to divide a part of her focus to maintain a spell while turning her attention elsewhere. It wasn’t exactly second nature yet, but she was getting better all the time.

Blade and Nico split off from Robbie and Magik, who circled around to the front. Blade flashed to the low back steps next to a tattered rose bush and waited for everyone else to get into place.

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