Bonded by Fae's Magic by Amelia Wilson

Author:Amelia Wilson [Wilson, Amelia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-21T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

A thousand thoughts raced through my brain. The ground trembled as both Sentries took giant steps towards us.

Why Iris? Why my little sister? What did they want with her?

“Crew!” Layni called out from behind us. “You’re not going to believe this—”

“We know, Layni!” he yelled as he jumped to his feet. He reached out a hand to help me to mine. “Leave the core and get her inside!” he added.

“Get who inside?” Iris asked as she came closer, crawling to me then scrambling to her feet.

“Listen, Iris—I don’t know how else to say this but—” Crew started, but he was cut off by a deafening blaring noise from both the Sentries.

My ears throbbed in protest at the wailing, screeching alarm. I covered them but that didn’t seem to stop much. Looking up, I watched in horror as their glowing eyes, behind their metal faces, turned red and their heads craned down towards their target.

My sister, I thought with a shiver through my whole body.

“Everybody inside!” Crew shouted, and I could hear the strain in his voice as he competed with the volume of the Sentries’ sirens. “Run!”

“But—” Iris started to protest.

“Now!” Crew demanded. “Sentry Force orders, cadet!”

She closed her open mouth, spun on her heels and dashed toward the building. I turned and followed her, my lungs still aching from the first sprint across the lawn. I willed my burning legs to move as quickly as they could. Crew caught up to me and ran alongside. I caught a brief peripheral glance of his face. Worry and fear had etched itself into every corner and every line.

The ground shook again, then again. They were moving faster. The screech and whine of the laser-like attack sounded and Crew and I both whipped around to see them start moving forward, down in the grass—following the path Iris had just run and heading straight toward her.

I couldn’t think straight and my body filled with ice. My exhausted legs shook and every part of me told me not to do what I was about to do, but it was the only thing I could think of—the only thing that would work . . .

I jumped directly into the path of the light lasers; I stopped dead and crossed my arms over my chest, reciting one of the only combat incantations I was actually good at: “Protegeum!”

“Marigold, no!” Crew barked.

A shimmering, transparent silver shield wrapped around me. Never one for hurling combat spells, I had mastered the art of the magic shield early on in school. It finished its seal around me just as the first beam of light hit.

“Marigold!” Crew shouted again, his voice panicked. “You can’t hold those beams off—”

The shield fizzled as the light tried to penetrate it. But I wasn’t the target, and they knew that. It made its way up my body-shaped shield and prepared to go right over me. But I had slowed it down, forcing it to work through protective magic.

The second one hit while the first was still on me and I felt a hole open up in the shield.

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