Shadow's Touch: Shadow Series, Book 2 by Hart T. M

Author:Hart, T. M.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-14T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

~Violet’s Playlist: Bloodstream, Stateless~

The spell was broken in an instant. The magic, the dreamy quality, the twinkling light—it all disappeared, and I was plunged into the cold darkness of night.

They had been waiting for me. My only chance was to turn and outrun them. But one was right next to me. It grabbed my arm and flung me forward before I could change course.

I spun in a quick circle trying to assess. Trying to clear my mind. Trying to process what was happening.

There were three of them. They formed a triangle around me. I didn’t have my dagger. I had no weapons. Without hesitating, I dug deep and sent the most powerful blast of energy I could summon all around me.

But instead of acting like a bomb, the pulse was simply absorbed. Gobbled up, like a star devoured by a black hole. It had been present one moment and sucked into nothingness the next.

It was all I had. I would need time to access my power again—to recharge. I now had no choice. I would have to fight.

What made me uneasy was not so much that I was weaponless in the dark wearing a nightgown. What made me uneasy was that I would have to battle an unknown enemy.

They were tall and sickly thin with gray ashen skin. They all had dark hair with lifeless eyes. Their eyes had a reflective quality, like an animal’s, that made them seem to glow in the dark. And each one wore a black robe.

They were the Shadows from our reference books. What I had expected my first night at the Dark Manor. Their true form.

They did not brandish any weapons. And that alarmed me.

They began to close in on me. I charged the one closest. Just before it could make a grab for me, I sprang into a front flip, tumbling directly over it while twisting midair so that I landed behind it, facing its back. It had already begun to turn around. With a sweeping kick that pushed into the direction the Shadow was turning, I struck its sternum.

The strike continued the momentum of its turn causing it to fall to the ground on its chest. At the moment of contact with the ground, the Shadow’s arms lay splayed out to each side. I leapt onto its back in a crouch and grabbed each arm. Then I sprang up, my feet digging into its spine, pinning its torso to the ground while wrenching its arms up. There was a sickening pop and crunch as I dislocated its arms and bones snapped.

I would have grabbed its head and given it a brutal twist as well, but the others were upon me.

I jumped from the back of the first one and sprang at one of the other two. I used the height and positioning of my jump to lock my arms around its head. Then employing the downward momentum of my vault, I yanked the back of its head down in a Muay Thai clinch.

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