Spartan Destiny: A Mythos Academy Novel (Mythos Academy spinoff Book 3) by Estep Jennifer

Author:Estep, Jennifer [Estep, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Jennifer Estep
Published: 2020-01-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

I plummeted face-first toward the ground.

My mind spun around at the sudden change in elevation, and the wind tore Babs out of my hand. I also felt the chimera scepter fly out of my back jeans pocket. Babs screamed, although I couldn’t make out what she was saying over the shriek of the wind in my ears. It didn’t matter anyway. I was going to be dead in another second as soon as I hit the ground—

Something sharp raked across my back, making me yelp with pain, and I jerked to a stop in midair. My brain rattled around inside my skull, and it took me a moment to realize that I wasn’t a bloody stain on the grass. I looked up.

Balder, the leader of the Eir gryphons, had caught me by the back of my shirt, five feet before I would have slammed into the ground. He flapped his massive wings and gently lowered me to the grass, before landing himself. Brono, his son, zipped down and landed a few feet away, pecking his beak at something in the grass, and a third adult gryphon landed on the quad as well.

Eagle heads, lion bodies, powerful wings attached to their backs. In many ways, the Eir gryphons were a mishmash of creatures, just like the Typhon chimeras and the Fafnir dragons. But instead of being monstrous and frightening like the other creatures, I had always thought that the gryphons’ bronze fur and wings were sleek and lovely, along with their eyes, which glowed like rich, polished bronze. Even more important, I knew that the gryphons would never hurt me, and I definitely couldn’t say the same for the other creatures. Even the chimeras I had summoned with Typhon’s Scepter probably would have killed me if they’d gotten the chance.

My feet hit the ground, and I stumbled forward, trying to find my balance, since my brain was still rattling around inside my skull. But I still remembered what—or rather whom—I had lost.

“Babs!” I screamed. “Where are you?”

The sword yelled a response, although my head was still spinning and aching so badly that I couldn’t tell where her voice was coming from. What I did see was this weird shadow that was growing larger and larger on the grass beside me—

Balder whipped out his massive wing and knocked me back, making me fall to the ground.

Thunk!

Ian’s ax landed blade-first in the spot where I had been standing. It would have skewered me if Balder hadn’t pushed me out of the way.

My head snapped up. Ian was leaning over the roof railing, along with Covington and Drake. The Reaper leader lifted his hand. Instead of Fafnir’s Dagger or the Chloris Amulet, he was now holding a large black feather pen with a silver nib on the end—Serket’s Pen, the artifact that could summon basilisks.

I scrambled to my feet. Balder must have realized the danger, because he gently nudged me with his wing, telling me to climb up onto his back.

“No,” I said, my words slurring.

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