The Series that Just Plain Sucks: The Complete Trilogy by Dufour Charissa

Author:Dufour, Charissa [Dufour, Charissa]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2015-12-28T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

I blinked, confused by my warm, hot even, surroundings. A large, furry blanket draped over my body. I laid prostrate on something that was hot and yet wet, and getting wetter. I felt a puddle of warm, gooey liquid spreading underneath me. I was pretty sure it wasn’t my blood; it smelled too bad for that.

Despite the smell and the gooeyness, I would have been happy to stay where I was if it hadn’t been for the extreme heat emanating from the ground. I shifted, struggling under the weight of the blanket pinning me to the ground. Then suddenly it all came back to me.

Shit!

“Ashley.” I heard numerous voices shouting my name.

I scrambled out from under the fur, which turned out to be one of the dog’s many ears. Thankfully, the ground was no longer covered with lava. I was just about to start looking around when multiple people reached my side, some grabbing my shoulders and giving me a shake, others clapping me on the back.

“You okay?” asked a strained voice.

I blinked a few times, suddenly realizing I was having trouble seeing. I wiped my hands across my eyes just as I heard a piercing shriek from somewhere near me; the battle was still going on. The hands holding my shoulders pulled me down. I wiped my eyes again, realizing my face was covered in dog saliva. After a few more wipes I got most of it off, and saw that it was Nik pushing me down into the dismal protection of the crook between the dog’s head and enormous paw.

“Where’s Josh?” I asked, looking around frantically.

“I’m here,” he said from just beyond Nik.

A few of our group were running off to join the others battling the bull-man-thing. From where I crouched, I spotted the gryphon dive and snatch up one of Richard’s vampires. The battle was far from over, I realized. The dog, while huge, was not necessarily the most dangerous of our enemies.

The bull jerked its head from side to side, its vast horns clotheslining a large group of our men. They collapsed, each one taking a different length of time to make it back to their feet. By the time enough of them were upright, the bull had charged away, turned, and was charging back at them. I spotted a few men dragging themselves away from the fight, their legs or backs too badly damaged to be of any use. Another man was searching among the wounded for his arm, the stub on his shoulder spouting large, graphic squirts of blood.

If anything, we were in worse shape than we had been when the dog was alive.

“Do they have weapons?” I asked as I watched a mob of men try to dog-pile the minotaur.

I guessed the answer before Nik spoke.

“No. Josh and I are going to take the iron to them,” he added as he ducked, barely avoiding the claws of the gryphon. It shrieked in defiance and zoomed back up to prepare for another attack.

“Stay here,” ordered Josh before they charged forward.

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