Fortune Academy: Year Two by J.R. Thorn

Author:J.R. Thorn [Thorn, J.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

I raged down the halls before Dante growled and shoved me behind him, yanking me down a path I’d missed. “You’re going the wrong way.”

I would have figured it out eventually, especially if I had been able to do my superwoman-seeing-through-walls trick, but I was far too pissed off to concentrate on my new powers to make them functional.

Following him without saying a word, I quietly stewed in my anger. Shortly after we had left I felt that cold pit in my stomach return ten-fold and I dumbly realized that he had a protection spell on his room. It only pissed me off more that Dante had taken me there to interrogate me.

Why did it feel like all of my Virtues were making my life miserable? They were supposed to be there for me, enable me to reach my ultimate potential and save the world, but I felt like the universe had gotten it wrong this time. Maybe it was screwed up by the Echoes of Calamity that had already passed that it wasn’t thinking straight when it had picked its Virtues for me.

“This is a mistake,” I growled out as Dante shoved me into a cold chamber.

“Now you say that?” He held the door open. “We can still turn back.”

“No, not this,” I said, pulling my shirt over my nose to mask the smell of rot and mold. “Thinking that you were actually trying to help me. That just because you’re one of my Virtues that I can trust you.”

He went still, but didn’t deny that he knew what I was talking about. Kaito would have informed him, I was sure of it. “Now is not the time or the place to talk about this,” he said. “If you want to go back to my room we can—”

“No,” I spat. “If you can’t talk to me without magical wards then we’re not having this conversation at all.”

“That’s not—”

His protest was cut off by a sickly wheeze that caught my attention. It was dark in here and my eyes automatically adjusted. Within seconds I could easily make out the walls of individual cages. Bodies slumped in them, unconscious with tubes lined up along the walls.

Sedatives.

Jess was the only one fighting. She had her human appearance again, but it had mingled with her demonspawn body. Long, ribbed horns protruded from her head and her hair had darkened. Black claws extended from her fingertips from one hand as she picked at the tube attached to her arm. I stuffed my hands into my pockets as I approached.

“Damn it all,” she hissed. “All the shit I go through and I’m bested by a piece of fucking tape?”

I giggled and the sound made her shoot her gaze up to me. I was taken aback for a moment by the dark irises that overtook the whites of her eyes, but then I relaxed when I still spotted my friend beneath the demonic exterior. “Hey, Jess.”

A glimmer of hope lit her eyes, then glazed over with anger.

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