elemental 07 - destroyer by mayer shannon

Author:mayer, shannon [mayer, shannon]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Hijinks Ink Publishing
Published: 2017-05-30T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

Shazer’s wing tips grazed the edges of the landing pad on the battleship and I was off his back in a flash. The wide eyes of the men on the ship were all I could see at first and I knew I had to get them out of the way. “Back off, all of you. There is a rather large beast that’s going to land. I don’t want interference and I don’t need any of you getting killed by accident.”

I stretched my arms and hands out and wiggled my fingers, feeling for the earth far below the ship. My connection to the ground even this far away was good, and I pulled on the sand buried in the ocean floor leagues below. As far as I knew, I was the only elemental who could do things like this, pull on my power from such a distance from it. A good thing, too, because I had a feeling I was needing everything in me to face this big-ass demon.

“What the ever-loving fuck do you think you’re doing on my ship?” The booming voice of what had to be the captain, or general, I suppose, echoed across to me. But I kept my back to the human and my eyes on the demon that swept toward us and sucked in a sharp breath.

Raven lay limp in its claws and the thing was going to fly right by us.

I couldn’t let that happen. I did the only thing I could think of.

“Demon, I challenge you!” I roared the words, amplifying them with Spirit.

The demon slowed and turned to face me. “Elemental.”

I gave it a mocking bow. “Do you accept the challenge?”

In answer, it roared, adjusted its flight path and headed straight for me.

I lifted a hand and pointed at the creature closing in on us as I spoke over my shoulder. “I’m going to kill that. And then I’m going to leave, and you’re going to let me.”

“We have orders to shoot all supernatural creatures on sight, Captain,” someone else said.

Did they? Well, we were going to see about that. I didn’t have time to deal with the humans and the demon at the same time. But at the first sound of gunfire, I realized that was exactly what I was going to do.

“Peta, Shazer, keep the demon busy a moment.” I flexed my fingers and called the sand from the ocean floor faster to me. Up and up until it was right under the ship. I kept pulling on the earth, kept solidifying it until the ship rocked, listing to the left as I built a sandbar underneath it.

“You’ll stay out of my way,” I glared at the human captain, “or I’ll tear this ship apart like blowing on a dandelion.”

He glared at me, sweat dripping down the sides of his face, fear written in every twitch of his skin. “Stand down, men.”

I could only hope he would hold to it.

Screams and shouts erupted from the humans, but they were the least of my concerns now.

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