Soar: A Warrior's Fight (Immortal Elements Series Book 2) by Sarah Zolton Arthur

Author:Sarah Zolton Arthur [Zolton Arthur, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Irving House Press
Published: 2019-08-23T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

The Battle Begins

Guards, the very same who’d been on the hunt looking for me, rounded the corner in a line six across, two deep, with spears raised. Their spears didn’t stay raised for long when Crest and Ibrahim shed their clothing and human forms.

The magnificence of the bird took flight. Golden feathers from head to toe rippled through the air as razor-sharp talons emerged ready to strike. I began to free myself of my human bonds when Crest called to me. Bird-shifters can communicate with other bird-shifters when in bird form so long as they’re of the same clan.

As my mate, apparently it opened up communication between us, not that I liked what he had to say.

“No, moonbeam. Go to Talora. Get her to the aqueducts.”

“You need me,” I argued.

“I need you safe and we need Korian’s strength. He won’t leave Talora’s side. You know that.”

“But—”

“Please.” He swooped low, reaching a talon out to claw at the eye of one of the guards. The guard dropped his spear and his skin to reveal a large brown eagle with black and white spots. Crest didn’t need me as a distraction. As pissed as I was at not getting to help, I ducked when Eeb—a taupe and white-bellied hawk—swept in, gouging a chunk of cheek from another guard aimed to strike his spear at my head, and got the hell out of the way.

Korian handed off Talora and we both watched in awe as the large man shook away human skin to reveal a great camel. Sturdy and strong, he charged into the fray. Giant birds filled the sky. Talora and I ducked several times to keep from losing our heads.

Although what potion was left in the vial had started to work on my injured friend, it hadn’t worked near enough, forcing the burden of carrying her weight on me as we half-ran, half-walked our way to a cave carved out at the end of the city covered by bars on a hinge to form a door. A notch cut out of the ground allowed water to flow freely.

One of the guards saw me break away from the pack and pursued us, divebombing at our heads. I used my hand to push Talora’s head down getting nicked on my temple by his talon in the process. Headwounds bled. A lot.

I swung my fist out freaking hard, connecting with his bird-groin—not that we could see it covered in feathers, but that was the region my fist hit.

He regrouped, flapping his wings to shoot himself straight upwards toward the clouds and abruptly pivoted to divebomb at us again.

I desperately pulled at the cage door to open it, but the lock clanked against the metal bars and wouldn’t budge. Talora was still too weakened to deflect or fight back.

Right before the bird reached us, I threw myself in front of Talora, preparing for the end when my golden-eagle mate swooped in, ripping the head of our white-and-black-spotted foe clean from the rest of his body, the carcass dropping to our feet.

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