The Last Guardian by Isabo Kelly

Author:Isabo Kelly [Kelly, Isabo]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fantasy Romance, paranormal, magic, wizards, gods
Publisher: T&D Publishing
Published: 2015-06-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

He led her through the darkened woods, supporting her when she stumbled.

“I think I might hate trees,” she muttered under her breath, and he felt an incongruous desire to laugh, despite their perilous situation.

“We’ll move closer to the plains if you like,” he offered, helping her around a fallen tree trunk. “You’ll need space. And your own herd of horses, I imagine.”

He glanced at her. With his heightened eyesight, another side effect of the Trickster’s “gifts”, he could see her clearly even in the darkness under the trees. The smile of pure pleasure that lit her face nearly brought him to his knees.

“You’d do that for me? Move away from your home? You’ve lived here for centuries, haven’t you?”

He had to turn away from her to watch the path, but her smile still glowed in his mind’s eye.

“It’s time I had a change of scenery,” he said and was rewarded with the sound of her quiet chuckle.

He felt the spells around his cabin disintegrate just as they reached the stones. The circle was no more than forty feet in diameter. The stones of power glowed faintly green in the dim moonlight of the clearing. At one point the stones had stood twice the height of a man, but they’d been worn away by time so that the tallest only came up to his thigh now. It wasn’t the stones themselves that imbued the circle with power, though. They were merely markers for the power in this place. A power that had drawn him to this particular mountainside after his exile.

A subtle shifting in the air currents warned him the creature was coming. No time to waste. Pulling Neeka into the center of the circle, he set up the first layer of spells, priming the circle to become a place between worlds where it would be safe to battle the creature. If the Soul Eater entered this circle, it would not get out again.

He sensed the deep blackness approaching before he saw it, knew the creature was near. He added another layer of spells to the circle, these to bind and hold the magics used within. Another layer to keep out other forces that could disrupt the circle’s balance. As he finished these, the blackness oozed out from the trees, into the clearing around the circle.

The shape of the Soul Eater was obscured in shadows so dense no light filtered through. It flowed forward, blotting out everything behind it. In its wake, the trees steamed and withered.

Gehan laid down the last binding spell as Neeka pulled a dagger from her belt. It was a spelled dagger, a weapon the K’ali had designed to fight the Soul Eater. But she’d already admitted K’ali weapons had failed this time.

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