Retaliation by Jarod Meyer

Author:Jarod Meyer [Meyer, Jarod]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Autumn Arch Publishing
Published: 2017-12-04T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

SHAMBHALA

Katrina could smell singed cloth, hot metal, but could see absolutely nothing. The blast of energy from the sentinel was powerful. It had blasted her breastplate wide open. He was aiming to kill.

True fear washed over her for the first time since the battle of the twin soul. Colors flashed before her eyes as she scrambled along the ground, helplessly waiting for the cold steel of the enemy’s blade to descend.

She turned over, her vision clearing and saw the enemy soldier kneeling on the ground not ten feet away. Parsa’s blade lay across his throat. Samuel had seemingly disarmed the soldier by projecting his aura around the sentinel’s sword, which now hovered unmoving in the air. Katrina guessed that he had given up the struggle against Samuel when he felt Parsa’s steel across his neck.

“What do we do with him?” Samuel asked.

“We can’t kill him. He is our brother,” Parsa offered.

“We can’t take him with,” Sam interjected.

Katrina didn’t wait around for the debate to end. She stumbled to her feet, and drove her fist into the sentinel with all her strength. The man’s head snapped back violently, his jaw cracking from the force of the blow. He crumpled backwards, unconscious. Then Katrina’s armor disappeared and she wiped some of the dust off of her traveling clothes. Her two companions looked at her in disbelief.

“Tie him up, and leave him. He will be fine. We need to leave before another scout comes by,” Katrina said, brushing past the others. “Oh and I’m fine by the way. Thanks for checking!”

“I’m not going into those mists again. That plan was insane,” Parsa said.

“I agree, we got lost in there,” Samuel added.

“And a lot of good it did us, we still ran into a scout,” Parsa said, glancing back at their prisoner with disdain.

“We will just have to go with our original plan of travelling as common folk. At least there will be fewer scouts in these mountains. And definitely fewer Adjudicators,” Katrina said.

The others agreed and they continued their journey. The slopes of the mountains were not as extreme as the ones that faced the interior of Archonia. But they were treacherous nonetheless. They made inhuman leaps and sometimes flew, but whenever possible they travelled as a normal human would to mask their energy outputs. Katrina was frustrated that she hadn’t been able to tell how strong that sentinel was. All Guardians were trained to be the strongest fighters and she was beaten with relative ease.

She tried not to let it bother her because the group had much bigger things to worry about. Like the fact that their attire suggested they were simple travelers along the road, but now they were in the mountains. Night came and passed without encountering another scout, but they knew with daylight approaching they would be easy to spot on the face of the rocks if a soldier flew overhead. For the remainder of the evening the group travelled slow, while trying to produce more appropriate disguises.

They

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