The Starfire Wars: The Complete Series by Jenetta Penner

Author:Jenetta Penner [Penner, Jenetta]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-10T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 24

Igrab for Dad’s limp body and scream for Max and Irene. Both turn my way as they shoot their laser guns at the Alku now charging for them from behind Javen. They get to my side and Irene attempts to pull me to my feet, but instead, I yank her down and grab Max by the leg. Mustering all the energy inside of me, I visualize us inside the Intersection and rip the four of us through.

On the other side, I glance down under the starlight at Dad and his barely breathing chest.

“We can’t let him die!” I screech.

My mind reels as images of Javen blasting Dad replay over and over again in my mind. Seeing him changed guts me. Everything I had on this planet . . . everything has been stolen from me.

I begin to heave with unreleased grief but force myself back to reality, to the present. Max is by my side and no one else. Panic resets in my bloodstream and I rush out, “Where’s Irene and the rest of the people who stayed behind?”

“She ran to the lab. There are some basic medical supplies back there. The other people might be at camp.” Terror washes over his face and then he whispers, “Do you think the Alku are coming after us?”

Dad’s portal device still juts out from his pocket. I retrieve the black device and hand it to Max. “I’m pretty sure this was the only one, and from what I can tell, the Alku can’t cross into the Intersection without it or me. But since the Alku have now absorbed the Intersection Starfire, I have no idea if they’ll eventually be able to.”

It’s not a satisfying answer and the tension still shows on Max’s face. Avoiding him, I return my attention back to Dad. What if the Starfire can heal him? I pull the crystal from my neck and place the gem to his chest. The second I do, his body tenses.

“What are you doing, Cassi?” Max yells. “You saw what the Starfire just did. Who knows what will happen if he wakes up?”

Everything in me wants to listen to him and remove the crystal, but a voice in my mind tells me to leave the Intersection’s gem where it is, to funnel myself with energy.

If you need to take me, I tell the Starfire, do it. Just don’t take Dad. He needs to live. Warmth fills my core and spreads up my chest and into my neck and arms. Memories of my life swirl through my mind, both good and bad . . . life with my parents, growing up, the memories of Javen’s life mixed with mine. Like a whirlwind, I integrate the Starfire’s power with who I am—an imperfect person who wants nothing more than all these wrongs set right again.

“Please work,” I whisper. “I just want my Dad back right now.”

I open my eyes and find my body slumped over Dad’s.

Rolling up to sit, my eyes focus on him, and then I see his breathing has returned to normal.

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