Dragon Mark by Kit Bladegrave

Author:Kit Bladegrave [Bladegrave, Kit]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-03-01T06:00:00+00:00

Twelve

Slade

I slammed into the ground, grunting at the pain rolling over me from the hit. I couldn’t hold my dragon form and shifted back, clawing at the ground. My breathing was ragged, and I couldn’t see straight. For a few moments there, we had the upper hand, but Fredwin, he brought more Priests, and they struck us from the sky one by one, ripped us apart with their damned magic.

The Black Diamonds had either retreated or were dead, but the Priests, they were holding this fight all on their own.

I pushed to all fours, spitting grass and dirt from my mouth… and froze.

Scrunching my eyes shut, I figured I’d hit my head harder than I thought, but when I opened my eyes again, there was Everest, striding through the middle of the camp, that damned look on her face of a determination I loved and hated at the same time.

I got to my feet unsteadily, following where her path would lead and drew two knives from my sides.

“Everest!” I tried to yell, but the word got stuck in my throat.

Each step sent jarring pain through my back, but I had to stop her from getting herself killed.

Fredwin, she couldn’t take him on alone. I wouldn’t let her. And how the hell had she even gotten here?

I picked up the pace, frowning to see her using magic. It swirled around her hands without her even seeming to use any effort to draw on it. Fredwin was only yards away. His eyes narrowed on her face as he leered. The air became charged as red lightning crackled at his fingertips and those of the Priests around him.

“You will not harm another soul here,” Everest warned.

I missed a step.

That voice, that was not Everest.

“Is that so? And who are you to stop me, huh? You’re nothing but a Descendant with no training and no chance at defeating me.”

“You’re wrong,” Everest replied, and her lips curled into a smile that was also not Everest.

This was wrong, very wrong. I wanted to call out to her, but then Fredwin’s gaze shifted, and his eyes zeroed in on me. He raised his hands over his head and with a yell, aimed that lightning right toward me.

It was coming for me and the other dragons who started to rally behind me at the sight of Everest.

I yelled for them to get down, ready to take the hit for as many of them as I could, trying to shift and use my wings as cover, but as the explosion of the hit sounded, nothing happened.

We weren’t thrown across the camp. There was no pain, nothing except dirt falling over our heads. I shifted back right away, then I straightened.

Everest was holding her right hand out toward us. A shield had formed around us, keeping us safe. The red lightning cracked around it but couldn’t get through.

“You Priests and your blood magic,” Everest snarled, “all of that came long after we came to exist.”

She reached out with her left

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