Guardian by Jack Porter

Author:Jack Porter [Porter, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ink Riot Books
Published: 2021-05-04T22:00:00+00:00

Twenty

At some point the other girls joined me. It was only then that I realized I had been staring at the river for nearly an hour, clutching Hannah’s crystal with nothing but the thought of getting her back running through my mind. I had tried gripping the crystal, willing the dark man-creature to reappear and fight me, but nothing happened. It had wanted Hannah, not me, and I didn’t like to think why.

Questions about where she could have gone, and unbearable thoughts about what state she would be in when I found her, swirled around me like an invisible wind.

“Dexter, what happened?” Megan asked. “Did you find her?”

Piper was the first to notice the extra crystal in my hand. “Is she hurt?” Piper’s low voice shot high with worry.

I gave a brief summary to the girls about the feeling Hannah and I encountered each time we activated the crystal’s power. Their eyes grew large and tearful when I told them about Hannah’s fall, my rush to get to her before the darkness did, and then capture.

“I failed her. I’m sorry girls.”

“You did everything you could,” Layla said, trying to comfort me with a light touch on the shoulder. “We will get her back.” The conviction and anger in her voice startled even me.

“Yes, I was thinking the same thing. You girls stay here. I’ll go rescue her.”

Immediate backlash assaulted my ears as every girl tried to argue with me at once. I picked up bits and pieces as they all talked over one another.

“We can help, you’d have no idea how to care for her wing if—” That was Piper.

Layla was almost yelling. “You can’t go alone. What if something happened to—"

“Like hell I am going to sit on my ass while my friend—" Megan sassed.

My heart softened, and I held my hands up in mock surrender. “I can see I’m not getting out of this. You have to understand how dangerous this is though. The darkness is after me, I think. I don’t want to put you girls needlessly in harm’s way.”

When they looked confused, I reluctantly told them about the mouse still laying just a few feet away from us.

Megan looked over and back quickly. From the emotions flickering on her face, Piper seemed to be at war with herself. Sick at the thought there was a dead mouse so close to her, and being thankful that it was dead, and worried at why I’d had to kill it.

Layla had her finger touching her chin lightly in thought. Slowly she spoke. “If we find our crystals, you stand a better chance of defeating him. Think about it. Our transformation depends on you, Dexter. Kind of like the darkness is using animals to attack you, maybe you use us to defeat the darkness. Aside from the ability to heal yourself and purify the darkness, you didn’t gain any of the physical anomalies that Hannah did. That means you have some other purpose, perhaps.”

“So, you think when you get your powers, whatever they are, you’ll be more apt to help me defeat the darkness.

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