Familiar Magic: An Uncanny Kingdom Urban Fantasy (The London Coven Series Book 1) by M.V. Stott

Author:M.V. Stott [Stott, M.V.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Genre Reader
Published: 2017-02-16T00:00:00+00:00

18

I ran into the blind alley, both fists boiling with energy, desperate to be unleashed. To fly from my hands and attack the man of many voices who thought he could play games with me. Mock me. Mock my masters. Kill my masters.

‘Where are you!’

I heard a million different laughs in a million different voices, jabbing me from every angle. I couldn’t think straight, the desire to tear this piece of shit to pieces was too strong, and I began to unleash volley after volley of magic into the alley. Bricks exploded, rubbish caught fire, but all the time that laugh kept going. That mocking, sharp laugh, watching me throw a useless temper tantrum.

‘If you’ve quite finished, Stella...’

‘Come and get me, you bastard, you coward.’

‘But we’re having so much fun. Why spoil things now?’

‘Stella—’ David was at my shoulder, breathing quickly, terrified. ‘Stella, I think we should get away, now.’

‘No! No. The creature that tore up the witches is here, and I’m going to finish it. I owe it to them.’

‘Here? Who’s here? It’s just a trick. It’s probably got, I don’t know, speakers set up or something, because look around, there is no one here. No man, no monsters, just us. Just me and you.’

I felt the air ripple around me. I recognised the feeling. What was happening. Something was forcing its way into being. Forcing its way into existence. Something was being conjured.

‘Do you feel that?’ asked David, stretching his jaw as though his ears were about to pop.

Before I had a chance to reply, a concussive blast of air hit us, throwing us back against one wall of the alley and to the ground.

‘What the…?’

‘David, don’t move—’

I heard them before I saw them. For a second they were shrouded by the grey smoke that had accompanied the blast, but I heard their growls. Then light began to pierce the smoke. Twin balls of fire. One set, then two, then three.

‘What is that?’

I knew what it was. As the first paw of the three giant devil dogs stepped out of the smoke, I stood and flexed my shoulders. The last time I had only faced one of them and it had almost killed me. I had been weak, staggering through a world empty of magic, terrified as the impossible reality of my masters murders gripped my heart in its icy fingers. This time was different. This time I was swollen with power, with magic, with fury. This time I was going to rip them to pieces.

As one, the three devil dogs lifted their heads and roared to the heavens, ready to do what their master had created them for: to kill.

I drew the magic towards me, felt it eagerly fill me as David tried to pull me back—

‘Stella, come on, let’s get back inside, we can barricade the door!’

‘No. I’m not running. Not from anything.’

‘Stella, come on, this is crazy, look at those things!’

I didn’t have time to argue; a flick of my head and David—his eyes wide with surprise—was lifted from his feet and thrown through the air back into the coven.

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